What is the prognosis for Polycistic Kidney Disease?
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"Polycystic kidney disease progresses slowly but persistently. Medical treatment may provide relief of symptoms for many years. Eventual end-stage kidney failure is common.
The absence of systemic disease or autoimmune disease makes people with polycystic kidney disease good candidates for kidney transplantation."
(http://www.pennhealth.com/ency/article/000502.htm)
"A doctor suspects this disease on the basis of family history and laboratory tests of kidney function. When the disease is advanced and the kidneys are very large, the diagnosis is obvious. Ultrasonography and computed tomography (CT) reveal the characteristic moth-eaten appearance of the kidneys and liver caused by the cysts.
Treating urinary tract infections and high blood pressure may prolong life. However, more than half of the people who have this disease develop kidney failure at some time in their life. Without dialysis or kidney transplantation, kidney failure is fatal."
(http://www.merck.com/mmhe/sec11/ch146/ch146k.html)
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