Her kidneys had troubled her all her life because of polycystic kidney disease, a degenerative genetic ailment that afflicts about half a million Americans.
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An adult kidney, normally the size of a fist, can swell to the size of a football in a person with polycystic kidney disease.
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Alamgir has inherited polycystic kidney disease ( PKD ) from his mother, undergoes kidney dialysis three times per week and requires a kidney transplant.
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He's been told it may be 18 more months before he'll get replacements for his two kidneys, which have been riddled by polycystic kidney disease.
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Unlike the liver disease where it develops a wide spectrum of severity; some have no cyst, while others have severe liver involvement polycystic kidney disease.
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What Linda didn't know was that for 17 years Gail had been suffering from polycystic kidney disease, the same disease that killed humorist Erma Bombeck.
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Presymptomatic testing for HD has also influenced testing for other illnesses with genetic variants such as polycystic kidney disease, familial Alzheimer's disease and breast cancer.
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The sentence, " Hereditary polycystic kidney disease is prevalent in the breed, affecting almost half the population in some countries . " is extremely outdated.
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With her kidney failing because of genetic disease, Polycystic Kidney Disease ( PKD ), Butch turned out to be close enough to be her donor.
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Polycystic kidney disease ( PKD ) which causes kidney failure in affected adult cats has an incidence rate of 36 49 % in the Persian breed.
