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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

DEAR MAYO CLINIC: I was surprised to learn that even though I have type 2 diabetes, I possibly could be a candidate to donate a kidney to my husband who has end-stage kidney disease. Would donating a ...

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 ...

Six weeks after the U.S. FDA issued an alert, the EMA is following suit and starting a review of the safety of six approved CAR T-cell cancer therapies, following... Setting the tone for the biopharma ...

Dr. Patrick Dean (sitting) successfully performed Minnesota's first robotic-assisted kidney transplant at Mayo Clinic on Oct. 4. CATHARINE RICHERT: I'm Catharine Richert in for Cathy Wurzer. Next week ...

Cutting-edge genetic tools diagnosed 83% of Irish patients with polycystic kidney disease (PKD), identified 36 novel variants, and discovered that seemingly unrelated individuals with the same variant ...

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 ...