If you refuse to get treated for lung cyst, sooner or later you will lose life. Because of enormous space
available inside the chest, lung cyst has an ample opportunity to enlarge rapidly and becomes gigantic in size
in a very short time. If ever such a patient coughs severely or receives a strong blow on the chest or sustain a
chest injury, the enlarged hydatid cyst of lung gets ruptured. With the result, the liquid coming out of
ruptured cyst harms in two ways, firstly spilled liquid may cause severe life-threatening reactions and
secondly, the liquid containing multiple small daughter cysts reaches other organs like brain, stomach,
muscles of hand and feet and the whole human body thus gets infested with cysts. If the cyst happens to
burst into wind pipe, the liquid coming out of burst cyst will choke the wind pipe and subsequently the lung,
with the result a life threatening condition develops. If the cyst staying in the lower part of the lung bursts
downward, the liquid content of ruptured cyst goes to abdomen resulting into severe abdominal
complications.

Dr. K. K. Pandey is a Senior Consultant in Thoracic & Endothoracic Surgery at Indraprastha Apollo Hospital, New Delhi, with 30+ years’ experience in lung cancer surgery, chest tumors, pleural diseases, VATS, esophageal surgery and minimally invasive thoracic procedures. He is also a dedicated health writer and educator.
