AUTOSOMAL DOMINANT POLYCYSTIC KIDNEY DISEASE (ADPKD) IN A LARGE IRANIAN FAMILY

Abstract

Study of a family with autosomal dominant polycystic kidney diseases (ADPKD) in five generations, including 96 healthy and 47 affected individuals, has been carried out in Tehran. Investigation on individuals, including final diagnoses by clinical findings, sonography, radiography and laboratory results, have Lead to the completion of genealogical chart of the family. The affected individuals have reached a stage of the disease with confirmed occurrence of renal damages. Uncertain diagnoses, unconfirmed statements of the family members about probable presence of the disease in some other members, and also the death of some members by other reasons were not possible to be registered in the chart. Up to now the chart has been the largest and the most complete in Iran, compared with the ones reported in the available literature.