Can polycystic kidney be operated on

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My aunt is a polycystic kidney disease, has been only Chinese medicine treatment, insist on not doing surgery, now the whole body swelling, can't move. It's painful. For patients with this disease should be treated as soon as possible, I will tell you the question about whether polycystic kidney can be operated.

Can polycystic kidney be operated on

First, it is impossible to remove the cyst by surgery alone, so surgical treatment is generally not considered in the treatment of multi class kidney. Only when there is a large cyst in the superficial part, especially when accompanied by intractable pain, hypertension or progressive renal insufficiency, cyst decompression is considered, that is, to extract the fluid from the large cyst, which is only to relieve the kidney pain Relieve symptoms through stress.

Second: when polycystic kidney is in the late stage and irreparable renal failure occurs, surgical treatment can be considered and kidney transplantation can be used to save the lives of patients.

Third, for small renal cysts, there is no need for any treatment when there are no symptoms, but regular review should be conducted to observe whether the cysts continue to grow. Surgical treatment is recommended for larger cysts or affecting renal function,

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The so-called polycystic kidney is the kidney covered with cysts of different sizes and shapes, like a cluster of grapes, only between the cysts is normal renal tissue.