Patient's question:
Recently, I've been feeling pale and unwell, not wanting to eat dinner, weak all over, and experiencing nausea again. What should I do if my kidney cyst is too large?Doctor's answer:
A kidney cyst is a general term for recurrent cystic masses of varying sizes in the kidneys, which are not connected to the outside world. Common clinical diagnoses of kidney cysts include polycystic kidney disease, simple renal cysts, and acquired renal cysts. Since most simple renal cysts are asymptomatic and cause minimal interference to renal function and surrounding tissues, they do not require treatment and only need follow-up for 6 to 12 months. If the cyst diameter is greater than 5 centimeters or causes symptoms that affect surrounding tissues, leading to urinary tract obstruction, cyst fluid aspiration and intracystic anesthetic sclerosants may be necessary. If the cyst is very large, with a diameter less than 10 centimeters, surgical treatment may be required. If the cyst is carefully removed during surgery, it will never interfere with fertility, so elective surgical treatment should be considered.