For people with polycystic kidney disease (PKD), life can be a constant cycle of symptoms: aches and pains, abdominal swelling, kidney stones, high blood pressure. At worst, the disease frequently ...

Not all causes of left kidney pain need treatment. But it’s important to watch for other symptoms and know when to see your doctor.

Many benign kidney tumors don’t cause symptoms. But when symptoms do occur, they can include blood in the urine and pain in the lower back or between the ribs and hips.

Cysts enlarge and damage the kidneys impairing their ability to function normally, which may lead to end stage renal disease (ESRD), eventually requiring dialysis or a kidney transplant.

Significantly more gout patients than controls had renal stones (20.5% vs. 6.3%), but among the gout patients, renal stones were significantly less likely to found in subjects with renal cysts ...

Polycystic kidney disease is an inherited genetic disorder, meaning it’s passed from parents to their children. There are two main forms of PKD, which are classified based on how the genetic ...

Stranger still, as the cysts budded and grew into fluid-filled sacs, the genetically normal intercalated cells began behaving differently, excreting fluid, as well as acid. "They were genetically ...

For people with polycystic kidney disease (PKD), life can be a constant cycle of symptoms: aches and pains, abdominal swelling, kidney stones, high blood pressure. At worst, the disease frequently ...

In a sensitivity analysis excluding the study with the largest sample size, there was still a significant prevalence of simple renal cyst among patients with AAA (OR, 2.71; P <.001).

Solitary renal cysts in the newborn infant, except for their rarity, are in no way different from those encountered in older children or adults. A rounded, cystic, asymptomatic mass is usually ...

Although cysts derived from renal tubules have been previously documented, this is the first induction of cysts from collecting ducts, which is more closely related to the pathogenesis of the disease.