[Dominant polycystic renal disease. Study of 105 cases]

Rev Med Interne. 1992 Sep-Oct;13(5):345-8. doi: 10.1016/s0248-8663(05)81197-x.
[Article in French]

Abstract

The study concerns 105 cases of dominant polycystic kidney disease. Affected relatives were observed in 65% of patients. The clinical features that leads to diagnosis were lumbar pain in 37.5% of cases, renal failure in 24.6% of cases and hypertension in 15.1% of cases. Hypertension was observed in 46.7% of cases and it seems that its onset is independent of chronic renal failure. Its frequency is of 55.1% when only kidneys were affected and of 21.4% when the liver was affected too. The progression of chronic renal failure is influenced by hypertension.

Publication types

  • English Abstract

MeSH terms

  • Adult
  • Aged
  • Female
  • Genetic Testing
  • Humans
  • Hypertension, Renal / epidemiology
  • Hypertension, Renal / etiology*
  • Incidence
  • Kidney Failure, Chronic / epidemiology
  • Kidney Failure, Chronic / etiology*
  • Low Back Pain / epidemiology
  • Low Back Pain / etiology*
  • Male
  • Middle Aged
  • Polycystic Kidney, Autosomal Dominant* / complications
  • Polycystic Kidney, Autosomal Dominant* / diagnosis
  • Polycystic Kidney, Autosomal Dominant* / epidemiology
  • Polycystic Kidney, Autosomal Dominant* / genetics
  • Retrospective Studies
  • Tunisia / epidemiology