Cheryl Lear, Michelle 'Nobi' Cotterill and Samantha Bradley, who call themselves the "renal cysters", all have polycystic kidney disease (PKD), an inherited condition that causes cysts to develop ...

They told me that my spleen would heal—but unrelated to the accident, based on the scans, they suspected that I might have polycystic kidney disease (PKD) and suggested that I consult a kidney ...

For patients with polycystic kidney disease (PKD), a common genetic disorder that ravages the waste-removing organ with cysts, dialysis and transplantation are among the only treatments.