What is congenital solitary kidney

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Kidney is a very important part of our body, which regulates many activities of our life. But some people are congenital kidney disease, the general situation of isolated kidney is more common. Now let's introduce the congenital solitary kidney.

What is congenital solitary kidney

First, isolated kidney is due to congenital absence of one kidney. It's not uncommon. However, the incidence rate is difficult to count because of no clinical symptoms. About 1 000 to 1 500 births have a single kidney. Male is more than female, left is more than right. The disease can be detected during physical examination.

Second: if you have a congenital solitary kidney, it usually has no symptoms. The clinical manifestation is cystoscopy, which can find the asymmetry of bladder triangle and unilateral ureteral orifice defect. In general, the volume of single kidney is larger than normal.

Third: the principle of treatment of this disease is that patients without complications do not need treatment. If surgery is needed for congenital single kidney disease, enough renal tissue and function should be preserved as far as possible, and isolated kidney should not be cut by mistake. If the renal function of solitary kidney has been seriously damaged, dialysis or renal transplantation should be performed.

matters needing attention

Congenital solitary kidney is not affected by postnatal, completely just caused by congenital factors, usually as long as pay attention not to do something to increase the burden of the kidney.