Basic Summary for Polycystic kidney disease

Main name of condition: Polycystic kidney disease
Other names or spellings: PKD, polycystic disease of the kidney

What is Polycystic kidney disease?
  Brief description of Polycystic kidney disease: Genetic kidney disease causing kidney cysts.
  Parent types of Polycystic kidney disease: Kidney conditions, Genetic Disease
  Organs Affected by Polycystic kidney disease: kidney
  Types of Polycystic kidney disease: Autosomal dominant PKD, Autosomal recessive PKD, Acquired cystic kidney disease (ACKD)

How many people get Polycystic kidney disease?
  Prevalance of Polycystic kidney disease: 600,000 Americans
  Prevalance Rate of Polycystic kidney disease: approx 1 in 453 or 0.22% or 600,000 people in USA [about data]
  Prevalance of Polycystic kidney disease: About 600,000 people ¹ ... In the United States, about 500,000 people have PKD, and it is the fourth leading cause of kidney failure. ²

Who gets Polycystic kidney disease?
Patient Profile for Polycystic kidney disease: Often no symptoms until age 30-40 but can occur in childhood. Rare subtype Autosomal recessive PKD affects newborns.

How serious is Polycystic kidney disease?
Complications of Polycystic kidney disease: see complications of Polycystic kidney disease

What causes Polycystic kidney disease?
Class of Condition for Polycystic kidney disease: genetic

What are the symptoms of Polycystic kidney disease?
Symptoms of Polycystic kidney disease: see symptoms of Polycystic kidney disease

Can anyone else get Polycystic kidney disease?
Contagion of genetic conditions: generally not; see details in contagion of genetic diseases.
Inheritance of genetic conditions: see details in inheritance of genetic diseases.

How is it treated?
Treatments for Polycystic kidney disease: see treatments for Polycystic kidney disease

Society issues for Polycystic kidney disease
Hospitalization statistics for Polycystic kidney disease: The following are statistics from various sources about hospitalizations and Polycystic kidney disease:

0.012% (1,487) of hospital consultant episodes were for cystic kidney disease in England 2002-03 (Hospital Episode Statistics, Department of Health, England, 2002-03)
85% of hospital consultant episodes for cystic kidney disease required hospital admission in England 2002-03 (Hospital Episode Statistics, Department of Health, England, 2002-03)
54% of hospital consultant episodes for cystic kidney disease were for men in England 2002-03 (Hospital Episode Statistics, Department of Health, England, 2002-03)
46% of hospital consultant episodes for cystic kidney disease were for women in England 2002-03 (Hospital Episode Statistics, Department of Health, England, 2002-03)
29% of hospital consultant episodes for cystic kidney disease required emergency hospital admission in England 2002-03 (Hospital Episode Statistics, Department of Health, England, 2002-03)
6 days was the mean length of stay in hospitals for cystic kidney disease in England 2002-03 (Hospital Episode Statistics, Department of Health, England, 2002-03)
3 days was the median length of stay in hospitals for cystic kidney disease in England 2002-03 (Hospital Episode Statistics, Department of Health, England, 2002-03)
30 was the mean age of patients hospitalised for cystic kidney disease in England 2002-03 (Hospital Episode Statistics, Department of Health, England, 2002-03)
39% of hospital consultant episodes for cystic kidney disease occurred in 15-59 year olds in England 2002-03 (Hospital Episode Statistics, Department of Health, England, 2002-03)
4% of hospital consultant episodes for cystic kidney disease occurred in people over 75 in England 2002-03 (Hospital Episode Statistics, Department of Health, England, 2002-03)
21% of hospital consultant episodes for cystic kidney disease were single day episodes in England 2002-03 (Hospital Episode Statistics, Department of Health, England, 2002-03)
0.011% (5,579) of hospital bed days were for cystic kidney disease in England 2002-03 (Hospital Episode Statistics, Department of Health, England, 2002-03)

Footnotes:
1. excerpt from Kidney and Urologic Diseases Statistics for the United States: NIDDK
2. excerpt from Polycystic Kidney Disease: NIDDK

Last revision: June 10, 2003

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