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Topic: Polycystic kidney disease, infantile type

	Polycystic kidney disease - infantile polycystic kidney disease
		Polycystic kidney disease (PKD) is a progressive, genetic disorder of the kidneys.
		Autosomal dominant polycystic kidney disease (ADPKD) is generally johnson polycystic kidney disease adopted daughter a late onset disorder characterized by progressive cyst development and bilaterally enlarged kidneys with multiple cysts.
		Polycystic kidney disease is one of the most common inherited disorders caused by mutations in a single gene.
	www.medicalgeo.com /Med-Diseases-Po---Q/Polycystic-kidney-disease.html (1045 words)

	EID V3 N2: Polycystic Kidney Disease: An Unrecognized Emerging Infectious Disease?
		Examining the hypothesis that polycystic kidney disease (PKD) is an emerging infectious disease and/or microbial toxicosis in a vulnerable population of humans must begin with a review of the conceptual tools that relate disease etiology and progression to the identification of microbes, their cellular components, and shed toxins in affected persons (1).
		Diverticular disease (44) and acquired renal cystic disease (46) occur in patients on hemo- and peritoneal dialysis.
		Abnormalities of glycosphingolipid, sulfatide, and ceramide in the polycystic (cpk/cpk) mouse.
	www.cdc.gov /ncidod/EID/vol3no2/miller.htm (8656 words)

	Kidney-Polycystic Kidney Disease
		Autosomal dominant polycystic disease is genetically heterogeneous with mutations in two distinct genes predisposing to the combination of renal and liver cysts (AD-PKD1 and AD-PKD2) and mutations in a third gene yielding isolated liver cysts (the polycystic liver disease gene).
		Medullary cystic kidney disease type 2 is an uncommon autosomal dominant condition characterized by juvenile onset hyperuricemia, precocious gout and chronic renal failure progressing to end-stage renal disease in the 4th through 7th decades of life.
		Medullary cystic kidney disease type 2 (also known as uromodulin-associated kidney disease) likely represents a form of endoplasmic reticulum storage disease, with deposition of the abnormal uromodulin protein in the endoplasmic reticulum, leading to tubular cell atrophy and death.
	www.thedoctorsdoctor.com /diseases/kidney_polycystic.htm (3568 words)

	Polycystic Kidney Disease
		Polycystic kidney disease (PKD) is a genetic disorder characterized by the growth of numerous cysts filled with fluid in the kidneys.
		This is the most common inherited form of polycystic kidney disease, accounting for about 90 percent of all PKD cases.
		Autosomal recessive PKD is a rare, inherited form of polycystic kidney disease thought to be caused by a particular genetic flaw that is different from the genetic flaw that causes autosomal dominant PKD.
	www.healthsystem.virginia.edu /uvahealth/adult_urology/polycyst.cfm (757 words)

	Polycystic kidney disease
		Polycystic kidney disease is expressed as both a recessive and a dominant trait.
		Infantile PKD is caused by a non-sex linked (autosomal) recessive genetic mutation that has been mapped to a region on the short arm of chromosome 6 (6p21).
		Diverticular disease is caused by a weakening of the muscles that hold the shape of the organs of the digestive tract.
	www.healthatoz.com /healthatoz/Atoz/ency/polycystic_kidney_disease.jsp (1971 words)

	Polycystic Kidney Disease (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
		Polycystic kidney disease (PKD) is a genetic disorder characterized by the growth of numerous cysts in the kidneys.
		The kidneys are two organs, each about the size of a fist, located in the upper part of a person's abdomen, toward the back.
		Established in 1987, the Clearinghouse provides information about diseases of the kidneys and urologic system to people with kidney and urologic disorders and to their families, health care professionals, and the public.
	kidney.niddk.nih.gov /kudiseases/pubs/polycystic (2508 words)

	eMedicine - Polycystic Kidney Disease : Article by Henrique M Lederman, MD, PhD (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
		Children with polycystic kidneys and liver involvement were assigned to perinatal, neonatal, infantile, or juvenile groups on the basis of their age at presentation and, in some cases, on the knowledge that a sibling had the condition.
		Patients with PKD and chronic renal disease are unable to concentrate their urine and may develop prerenal azotemia as a result of extrarenal water losses or the use of diuretics.
		The Polycystic Kidney Research (PKR) Foundation is devoted to determining the cause of PKD, improving its clinical treatment, and discovering a cure.
	www.emedicine.com /ped/topic1846.htm (5879 words)

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		In type I the kidneys are oversized and spongy.
		She stated further: 'Neither the pulmonary hypoplasia often responsible for death of infants with renal agenesis nor the facies characteristic of absence of intrauterine renal function occur in these infants.' Potter (1972) referred to type II cystic kidney as early ampullary inhibition and indicated that it is not inherited.
		(1983) described a congenital polycystic kidney mutation (cpk) in the mouse which was thought to be a useful model of autosomal recessive polycystic kidney disease in the human.
	zeta.embl-heidelberg.de:8000 /srs5bin/cgi-bin/wgetz?-e+[omim-id:263200] (5855 words)

	Iredell Memorial Hospital
		Acquired cystic kidney disease (ACKD) develops in association with long-term kidney problems, especially in patients who have kidney failure and who have been on dialysis for a long time.
		Parents who do not have the disease can have a child with the disease if both parents carry the abnormal gene and both pass the gene to their baby.
		ACKD develops in kidneys with long-term damage and bad scarring, so it often is associated with dialysis and end-stage renal disease, according to NIDDK.
	www.health-news-and-information.com /4iredell/libv/i71.shtml (2049 words)

	Polycystic Kidney Disease
		In kidneys from 8-to-16-week-old fetuses, polycystin-1 is predominantly
		Polycystic kidneys and chronic inflammatory lesions are the delayed consequences of loss of the suppressor of cytokine signaling-1 (SOCS-1).
		Polycystin, the polycystic kidney disease 1 protein, is expressed by epithelial cells in fetal, adult, and polycystic kidney.
	www.medical-journals.com /r04_801.htm (5551 words)

	Polycystic kidney disease, dominant type
		The term polycystic kidney disease should be reserved for two hereditary diseases: autosomal recessive polycystic kidney disease (ARPKD) and, most commonly, autosomal dominant polycystic kidney disease (ADPKD).
		Recessive type or infantile polycystic kidney disease is an inherited disorder with cystic dilatations of the collecting ducts frequently associated with hepatic involvement, consisting of biliary dysgenesis and periportal fibrosis.
		ARPKD is a rare disease that affects 1/40,000 children/year.
	www.orpha.net /static/GB/polycystic_kidney_disease.html (320 words)

	Polycystic Kidney Disease
		Polycystic kidney disease (PKD) is a genetic disorder characterized by the growth of
		urinary tract to the cysts in the kidneys.
		disease in the child, the disease is said to have dominant inheritance.
	www.duj.com /Polycystic.html (1890 words)

	UpToDate Patient information: Polycystic kidney disease
		Although the incidence of polycystic liver disease is similar in men and women, massive cysts occur almost exclusively in women, and are more common in those who have had several pregnancies.
		In those with PKD1 disease, the probability of a positive ultrasonogram is estimated to be 8 percent in patients younger than age 10 and increases to almost 100 percent by the age of 30.
		Not all patients with kidney disease are alike, and it is important that your situation is evaluated by someone who knows you as a whole person.
	patients.uptodate.com /topic.asp?file=kidn_dis/6183 (2941 words)

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		Bilaterally large kidneys with multifocal round lesions; unilateral enlargement may be the first manifestation of the disease
		Polycystic kidneys shrink after beginning of renal failure, after renal transplantation, or on chronic hemodialysis
		Autosomal Recessive Polycystic Kidney Disease = Polycystic Disease of Childhood
	www.learningradiology.com /notes/gunotes/apkdpage.htm (541 words)

	Polycystic Kidney Disease - Symptoms, Diagnosis & Treatment - nephrologychannel
		A nephrologist uses CT scan, x ray, and ultrasound to view kidney cysts.
		Renal replacement therapy, which involves kidney dialysis or transplantation, may be required in ESDR to restore kidney function.
		If the prospective kidney comes from someone in the family, genetic counseling and assessment is necessary.
	www.nephrologychannel.com /polycystic/symptoms.shtml (321 words)

	Matrix metalloproteinase-2 in a murine model of infantile-type polycystic kidney disease.
		To determine whether increased synthesis and secretion occur in vivo in this mouse model of polycystic kidney disease, kidney protein extracts, mRNA, and tissue sections were compared for expression and activity of MMP-2 and -9.
		High levels of MMP-2 seemed to result from increased expression by the cystic kidneys predominantly in the second and third postnatal weeks (a time when the kidneys are undergoing rapid cystic enlargement).
		Although both MMP were detected in tissue extracts, the differences in expression levels and activity in normal and cystic kidneys were far greater for MMP-2.
	www.ihop-net.org /UniPub/iHOP/gp/1801177.html (208 words)

	Polycystic Kidney Disease
		When PKD causes kidneys to fail -- which usually happens only after many years -- the patient requires dialysis or kidney transplantation.
		In some rare cases, the cause of autosomal dominant PKD occurs spontaneously in the child soon after conception -- in these cases the parents are not the source of this disease.
		Ultrasound imaging of the fetus or newborn baby reveals cysts in the kidneys but does not distinguish between the cysts of auto-somal recessive and autosomal dominant PKD.
	www.webmd.com /content/article/5/1680_51136.htm (2259 words)

	Polycystic Kidney Disease
		In some rare cases, the cause of autosomal dominant PKD occurs spontaneously in the child soon after conception--in these cases the parents are not the source of this disease.
		The National Kidney and Urologic Diseases Information Clearinghouse (NKUDIC) is a service of the National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases, one of the National Institutes of Health, under the U.S. Public Health Service.
		The clearinghouse, authorized by Congress in 1987, provides information about diseases of the kidneys and urologic system to people with such afflictions and their families, health care professionals, and the public.
	www.medhelp.org /gov/www42.htm (2242 words)

	Variegate Porphyria (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
		Beside most disorders is a code that indicates the type of mutation and the chromosome involved.
		Variegate porphyria is a type of porphyria that can have acute (severe but usually not longlasting) symptoms along with symptoms that affect the skin.
		About Porphyria: Porphyria Cutanea Tarda (PCT) This disease is the most common of the porphyrias and results from a deficiency of the enzyme, uroporphyrinogen decarboxylase (UROD).
	www.porphyria-symptoms.com /variegate-porphyria_13.html (766 words)

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	JGI - Human Chromosome 16
		(The average across the entire genome is 5.3%.) The large structural polymorphisms appear to lead to variations among humans that affect phenotype or disease susceptibility.
		For example, a 450-kb inversion was found to exist between two haplotypes of one of the most extensively duplicated regions, containing genes for a subunit of eukaryotic translation initiation factor 3 (EIF3S8), sulphotransferase 1A, and Batten disease.
		Another large polymorphism (360 kb), the human homolog of the hydrocephalus-inducing gene, is a recently duplicated gene sometimes found on chromosome 1.
	www.jgi.doe.gov /science/highlights/martin0405.html (605 words)

	Healthopedia.com - Polycystic Kidney Disease: Symptoms & Signs (Polycystic Disease of the Kidneys)
		Signs and symptoms depend on the type of polycystic kidney disease.
		Children with the infantile form of PKD often have very large, malformed kidneys at birth.
		Many children die from infections, kidney failure, or liver failure before or during early adulthood.
	www.healthopedia.com /polycystic-kidney-disease/symptoms.html (396 words)

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