The presence and number of kidney cysts, particularly in the medulla, may be an additional imaging-based biomarker for progressive CKD after radical nephrectomy for kidney cancer. Among patients who ...

Background The proband, a 33-year-old woman, presented with renal cysts, mild renal failure and a renal tumor. One of the proband's two sons had hyperechogenic kidneys and the other had renal cortical ...

The weight of evidence gathered from studies in humans with hereditary polycystic kidney disease (PKD)1 and PKD2 disorders, as well as from experimental animal models, indicates that cysts are ...

A renal allograft recipient (underlying disease IgA nephropathy) went into renal failure 10 days after transplantation. The donor kidney had multiple cortical cysts and 2 separate renal arteries. A ...

Analyses of the chemical composition of fluid in 12 cysts of a polycystic kidney disclosed marked variations in the concentrations of selected cations, glucose, urea and creatinine. The concentrations ...

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