Adult polycystic kidney disease

Adult polycystic kidney disease is an autosomal dominant hereditary disease that is almost always bilateral (95% of the total number of cases). Although infants have reported polycystic kidney disease in adults, this disease occurs in infants different from adults. Infant polycystic kidney disease is an autosomal recessive genetic disease with short prevention of survival. Adult polycystic kidney disease usually does not show symptoms before the age of 40, and multiple cysts of the same form can be seen in the liver, spleen and pancreas. Polycystic kidney disease is larger than normal kidneys, and its surface is covered with cysts of varying sizes.

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