A team of 10 U.S.-based investigators delved deeper into how autosomal dominant polycystic kidney disease affects patients’ health-related quality of life and pain levels. Here’s what they found.

Race may play a role in the waitlist experience, allograft quality and transplant outcomes of patients with autosomal ...

A team of researchers at Western Michigan University Homer Stryker M.D. School of Medicine has made a monumental breakthrough in understanding autosomal dominant polycystic kidney disease (ADPKD ...

—Investigators in Korea recently designed a study to examine the clinical characteristics and outcomes of kidney transplantation in patients with autosomal dominant polycystic kidney disease ...

Many of these patients eventually require therapy ... explains lead author Dr. Takuya Fujimaru. "These included polycystic ...

traditional methods Patients with genetic kidney diseases, such as autosomal dominant polycystic kidney disease (ADPKD), often face the looming threat of organ failure. With as many as 70,000 ...

Autosomal Dominant Polycystic Kidney Disease (ADPKD) affects one out of every 400 to 1,000 people, according to the release. Though the disease affects multiple parts of the body, the most notable ...

Bob Bentz and Russell Jardin are two people who have beaten the odds as they have lived more than three decades after a ...

Table 1. Landesman and Scherr's classifications of pregnant patients with autosomal dominant polycystic kidney disease, based on the degree of severity of their renal disease. Group A ...

For generations, polycystic kidney disease (PKD) has cast a shadow over Patricia (Pumper) Christensen’s family, claiming the lives of loved ones and leaving a legacy of struggle and ...