Data from this Australian study showed a higher prevalence of intracranial aneurysms (ICAs) in patients with ADPKD compared with the general population. Many patients in the study had no known risk ...

A patient report submitted to the FDA provides insights on living with ARPKD and unmet medical needs. An “ARPKD Therapeutic Development Roadmap” is forthcoming. Current treatments for autosomal ...

Experts recently developed 23 consensus practice points/statements regarding the use of nephrectomy in autosomal dominant polycystic kidney disease (ADPKD). Regardless of when it was performed in ...

University of Oklahoma College of Medicine researchers Maulin Patel, Ph.D., left, and Leonidas Tsiokas, Ph.D., are seeking the mechanisms of polycystic kidney disease. For many patients, dialysis – a ...

Polycystic kidney disease (PKD), a family of genetic disorders that causes clusters of cysts to form on the kidney, is among the most common genetic disorders, affecting some 500,000 people in the ...

Source: Getty Images The widespread use of standard laparoscopic procedures has been constrained by the technical difficulties presented by patients with PKD who have massively enlarged and cystic ...

When I was 16, I was in a car accident on my way to school and my spleen was injured. I needed to undergo a CT scan to make sure there was no other internal damage to my organs. The ER doctors checked ...

March is National Kidney Month aimed at shining a spotlight on kidney health and research for kidney disease. In Raleigh, hometown Gold and Platinum musician, Jason Adamo, who's no stranger to the ...