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View Post: Valproic acid (Depakote) could treat polycystic kidney disease ...
2 Dec 2009 by pillscribe  
In polycystic kidney disease (PKD) numerous cysts grow in the kidneys. When cysts form in the kidneys, they are filled with fluid. PKD cysts can profoundly enlarge the kidneys while replacing much of the normal structure, resulting in ...
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View Post: Epilepsy Drug Shows Promise in Treating Kidney Disease ...
3 Dec 2009 by Dintz  
(PhysOrg.com) -- An anti-convulsant drug commonly used to treat epilepsy reduces cysts in mice that are associated with polycystic kidney disease (PKD), a difficult to treat ailment that afflicts 600000 people in the United States, ...
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View Post: Thinking Made Easy: Chronic kidney disease
26 Oct 2009 by Marivic Butod  
Title/Programme: Prevalence of chronic kidney disease and decreased kidney function in the adult US population: Third National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey. Journal: American Journal of Kidney Discovery Year of publication: ...
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View Post: The Cipro Worked « CHRONIC POSITIVITY – Life with Polycystic ...
19 hours ago by jeffsher63  
Keeping it in perspective, most of the articles are on patients who already have Nephropathy (kidney damage) from the virus; as far as I know, I don't have any damage from it. I believe it was caught early; thank God that my Transplant Surgeons are compulsive, and screen for ... She's blind from the disease, so she deserves a lot of credit for overcoming a lot of adversity. (I had an update by the staff Dermatologist at my appointment). Merry Christmas and Happy Holidays! ...
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View Post: Chris Strouth, Scott Pakudaitis share a Twitter kidney ...
4 hours ago by Hart Van Denburg  
Those who have followed the saga know that Harold is the name Strouth gave the kidney disease that for three years ruled his life and damned near killed him. He put out a call via Twitter for an organ donor in February and Scott ...
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View Post: Chronic Kidney Disease: At Thanksgiving, Discuss Your Family's Risk
24 Nov 2009
Chronic kidney disease (CKD) is a devastating disease process that afflicts African Americans, American Indians, and Hispanic Americans disproportionally. It can lead to chronic kidney failure (CKF) and make you dependent on kidney ...
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View Post: mental_floss Blog » 13 Medical Conditions Named After People
2 hours ago by Ethan Trex  
The kidney disease bears the name of Richard Bright, an English physician and colleague of Hodgkin's at Guy's Hospital. Bright began looking into the causes of kidney trouble during the 1920s, and in 1927 he described an array of kidney ...
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