DEAR MAYO CLINIC: I was diagnosed with chronic kidney disease but did not have any symptoms, so far as I knew. Are there early symptoms that I missed? Is this hereditary? Should I be advising family ...

ROCHESTER, Minnesota — The traditional way to treat people with advanced kidney disease has been to use dialysis to remove waste from the blood while patients wait several years for kidneys from ...

Polycystic kidney disease (PKD) is a genetic disorder marked by the growth of many fluid-filled sacs (cysts) in your kidneys. These cysts can grow to replace normal kidney tissue over time, leading to ...

Patients with large polycystic kidneys in need of a kidney transplant can have their diseased kidneys safely removed laparoscopically at the same time as their transplant surgery. That is the finding ...

Have you ever heard of Polycystic Kidney Disease or PKD? The Mayo Clinic defines it as is an inherited disorder in which clusters of cysts develop primarily within your kidneys, causing your kidneys ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Patients with autosomal dominant polycystic kidney disease have a preferable cardiac profile before ...

Mayo Clinic is teaming up with Baxter International Inc., one of the world’s largest medical device manufacturers, in a five-year research and development partnership. Few details were provided about ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . The incidence of asymptomatic pyuria is correlated with rapid decline in kidney function irrespective of the ...

WEWAHITCHKA, Fla. (WJHG) - According to The Kidney Project at The University of California, San Francisco, nearly 750,000 people in the United States are affected by kidney failure. One of those ...

University of Utah Health has opened a new specialty clinic focused exclusively on treating patients with polycystic kidney disease (PKD). PKD is a genetic condition that causes fluid-filled cysts to ...