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Kidney and urine
Hello respected Doctors,
Greetings and hope all of you and your family doing fine.
Kindly advise me what is a contracted kidney and how it is caused??? Is there any cure... The patient is 23 yrs old female with uti. Google said contracted kidney is kidney cancer. We are scared.
Regards and much appreciate in advance
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Possible causes
1. By birth
2. Recurrent urinary infection
3. Longstanding BP
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Get thoroughly checked up
It may not be Cancer
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Contracted kidney is not cancer.. contracted kidney is due toany reasons..as ur saying 23 year female with uti..it may be due to recurrent infection.
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You didnot mention whether contraction is unilateral or bilateral. more important to know the urea and creatine value.
Recurrent UTI , unilateral renal artery stenosis and other causes can lead to small kidney or some time may congenital from birth.
Cancer usually donot produce contracted kidney on the other hand hypernephroma cause enlarge ment.
If renal function impaired need consultation.
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Go for a proper paid consult.
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Sunken kideny with cancer rarer but give details of present symptoms, past history, any sign, report specially CBC, kideny function, USG kidney, any biopsy report sujjestive cancer.
Only then according to stage could tell prognosis.
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