Two Cysts In Left Kidney And Blood In Urine

If a patient has two cysts in his left kidney and blood in his urine, what he can know from these informations?

Is this condition severe?

Kidney cyst can be divied into three kinds, and they are polycystic kidney disease (PKD), simple kidney cyst, and acquired cystic kidney disease (ACKD), and the last kind of kidney cyst is relatively rare. If patient just has two cysts in his left kidney, that is most likely to be simple kidney cyst.

In fact, simple kidney cyst is not very severe, because it do not cause kidney function to go down unless the cyst in kidney is very big. And half normal kidney function will be able to guarantee our body health, so patient’s overall health will not be effected unless it cause infection or malignant transformation. Besides, the effect of treatment for simple kidney cyst is very obvious, and patient’s condition is not hard to control.

Why patient with two kidney cysts has blood in urine?

Since two kidney cysts in left kidney will not cause severe damage to patient’s body health, why patient still has blood urine?

In fact, if the two kidney cysts’ sizes are big enough, they will oppress their surrounding tissues, and damage his kidney structure. Once the surrounding nephrons of kidney cysts are damaged, their glomerular filtration membrane are very likely to be damaged, which has the function of filtrating out the metabolic wastes and keeping the nutrients in blood, and macromolecular substances like red cell will be able to leak out through patient’s urine. Then, patient may find he has hematuria.

Thereby, even though patient knows he has two kidney cysts in his kidney and has blood in his urine, he should not be too worried.