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Use of Ultra-high Field MRI in Small Rodent Models of Polycystic Kidney Disease for In Vivo Phenotyping and Drug Monitoring
Published on: June 23, 2015
[Case of polycystic kidney associated with non-ruptured cerebral aneurysm]
Abstract:
Polycystic kidney is a familial disorder known to be complicated often by liver cyst, pancreas cyst and cerebral aneurysm. While numerous reports have been made on the concurrence polycystic kidney and cerebral aneurysm in foreign countries, there are only several autopsy cases documented so far in Japan. This paper describes a surgically treated case of proven non-ruptured aneurysms of bilateral middle cerebral arteries associated with polycystic kidney, and discusses the epidermology of cerebral aneurysm accompanying polycystic kidney in Japan. According to the Annual Report of Pathological Autopsy Cases in Japan, 1981, 8.4% of the cases of polycystic kidney were associated with cerebral aneurysms. The patients with polycystic kidney should be investigated for cerebral aneurysms.
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