A rarer and more severe form that appears in infancy or early childhood Both parents must carry the faulty gene for a child to develop ARPKD Can lead to severe kidney dysfunction and other ...

Middle sister Ms Cotterill, 45, was placed on the transplant list in January and due to the severity of her condition had a ...

University of Oklahoma College of Medicine researchers Maulin Patel, Ph.D., left, and Leonidas Tsiokas, Ph.D., are seeking ...

Long-term tolvaptan treatment in patients with autosomal dominant polycystic kidney disease (ADPKD) yielded a 14% reduction in kidney function decline but had no influence on kidney growth.

A new technique for treating polycystic kidney disease has been identified by researchers at The University of Manchester and UCL. Published in the Journal of the American Society of Nephrology, the ...

A systematic review and meta-analysis identified factors contributing to post-kidney transplant anemia and the effect of erythropoietin-stimulating agents (ESAs).

researchers found that the gene responsible for kidney disease in humans -- polycystic kidney disease 1 (or PKD-1) gene -- is also present in anemones, allowing their hair cells to detect water ...

In 2012, she was diagnosed with polycystic kidney disease. "Polycystic kidney disease is where your kidneys are covered in cysts. The doctors have said that my kidneys look like they have a lump ...