A team of researchers at Western Michigan University’s Homer Stryker M.D. School of Medicine has made a monumental breakthrough in understanding autosomal dominant polycystic kidney disease (ADPKD), a deadly and incurable kidney disease affecting 1 in 400 to 1,000 people.
The team just recently published their findings in a paper available to read online HERE .
ADPKD is a somewhat common inherited disorder that causes cysts to form throughout the kidneys, eventually leading to end-stage kidney failure. It can also affect the pancreas, liver and blood vessels.
Current treatments only manage symptoms, but researchers are hopeful that their discovery will pave the way for preventing the disease altogether…