Kidney Dysplasia in Children

Cystic renal dysplasia is a serious pathology of intrauterine development of the fetus. Most often it is detected during pregnancy. But there are cases when the disease is diagnosed already during the life of the baby.

So, let's discuss cystic dysplasia of kidneys in children: treatment, species and prognosis.

What is polycystic kidney dysplasia?

Cystic formations in the kidneys, a decrease or increase in their size and disruption of the formation of the renal parenchyma, in medicine this disorder is called dysplasia. Depending on the nature and scale of the deviations, distinguish:

  1. Total dysplasia, which in turn is divided into:
  • Focal dysplasia - in this case, one multi-compartment cyst is diagnosed.
  • Segmental dysplasia - it is characterized by large cysts in one of the segments of the kidney.
  • Polycystic dysplasia is determined by the formation of bilateral cyst.
  • Treatment of cystic kidney dysplasia in children

    Complete recovery from this disease is possible only through organ transplantation. And only in the event that the child has only one kidney affected. Unfortunately, total bilateral dysplasia most often leads to a fatal outcome.

    The rest of the disease can be symptomatically treated (anesthetizing and antibacterial drugs), and also require constant monitoring ( blood and urine analysis, pressure measurement, ultrasound).

    Large cysts, pronounced symptomatology of the disease (renal colic, hematuria, high blood pressure) are the reason for the operation.

    If a kid has one kidney affected, while the baby does not worry, it develops normally - the treatment of dysplasia is not performed.