Hydronephrosis Treatment

If you have kidney stone or cyst, you should pay more attention to the dull pain in the kidney range. Tests are suggested to you when you feel a dull pain and stretching feeling in kidneys to prevent severe hydronephrosis. Now let us talk about hydronephrosis treatment.

Why does hydronephrosis present?

Some factors easily lead to this disease which will be listed in the following. If you have one or some of the diseases, I hope you will pay more attention about your kidneys.

First of all, obstacle in the urethral canal is one of the main causes. Why do people have obstacle in the urethral canal? It may be caused by kidney stone, blood clot, drop of the dead kidney nipple, kidney cysts and so on. Besides, kidney tumor in pelvis, kidney calices and ureter and infection in kidneys or urethra may block urine for excretion.

What is more, pressure from the surrounding tissues also may block the urine excretion. For example, the tumors in corpus and uterine cervix, prostatic hyperplasia, gravid uterus etc all press the ureter to discharge urine. In addition, damage in nerve system also lead to hydronephrosis.

What are the treatments for hydronephrosis?

If there is too much urine in kidneys, the kidney tissues will be stretched and may become a bag to collect urine. In this way, many tissues will die due to the great pressure. Thereby people will lose much kidney function to develop into acute kidney failure. And in most cases, the damaged tissues have no chance to recover again. So article ureter is needed to discharge the urine in order to reduce the great pressure of kidney tissues.

In addition, people need to treat the primary diseases, such as the tumor, cysts or stone in order to clean the tract which is used for excretion. If patients are children, surgery is needed immediately for children’s kidney is too little to bear the great pressure. For the elder patients, surgery is not suggested if their condition is not serious as surgery may lead to more hurt for their kidney tissues.


Hydronephrosis is an acute disease which needs an urgent treatment. If you do not know whether you have it or not, please consult our experts online and they will give help.