Abstract:Autosomal dominant polycystic kidney disease (ADPKD) is a condition in which numerous cysts develop in the renal tubules and grows over the lifetime, resulting in compression of renal parenchyma and worsens renal function. Conventionally, total kidney volume (TKV) is bluntly estimated as a time cross sectional parameter of disease status. In assumption that cyst initiation rate and growth speed of cysts would be another prognostic marker for renal function, and regulate the morphological feature of the enlarge… Show more
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