Patient's question:
I'd like to understand the difference between renal medullary cysts and polycystic kidney disease. Which one is relatively more serious? Are the symptoms of these two conditions the same? What situations might reappear during an outbreak?Doctor's answer:
Renal medullary cystic disease is also known as medullary sponge kidney, tubular idiopathic dilatation, and non-uremic medullary cystic disease, among other names. It refers to cystic lesions in the renal medulla. The pathological feature is the dilatation of papillary collecting ducts, forming numerous cysts of varying sizes in the renal medulla. Polycystic kidney disease is also known as Potter (I) syndrome, Parman syndrome, congenital renal cystic tumors, cystic kidney, bilateral renal dysplasia syndrome, benign multicystic renal tumors, and polycystic disease. These two diseases are different, and if they exist, their symptoms are also slightly different.