Re: Removal of kidney cyst website/Lyndi

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Lyndi,

Just want you to know that I would not let them drain but remove as they can

fill back up : ) Here is a site that explains this.

http://www.kidney.org.uk/Medical-Info/kidney-disease/cysts.html I did not

appreciate waking up on a radiological table with a radiologist trying larger

and larger catheters to drain each chamber of my big cyst that was benign but

compressing on things.

Kidney cysts do run in my family. Good Luck, Sweetie. Bennie

Article states:

Can cysts be removed or operated on?

It is rare for cysts to require drainage. If so, this can be done with a needle,

with some local anesthetic to dull the pain and an X-ray (ultrasound) machine

for guidance. However, polycystic kidneys contain so many cysts that drainage of

a single cyst cannot cure the condition. Even if one cyst is painful, there may

be hundreds of cysts in each kidney, and needling the one causing the problem

can be very hard.

Most kidney specialists regard cyst drainage as rather experimental, but it can

sometimes help. In extreme cases, particularly if severe infection has been a

problem, the whole kidney can be removed at an operation.