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Public Release Type
Journal
Publication Year
2019
Affiliation
Division of Biostatistics, Department of Public Health Sciences, University of California, Davis, CA, USA.; Division of Nephrology, Department of Internal Medicine, University of California, Genome and Biomedical Sciences Building, Room 6311, 451 Health Sciences Dr, Davis, CA, 95616, USA.; Department of Public Health Sciences, University of Chicago, Chicago, IL, USA.; Nephrology Section, University of Chicago, Chicago, IL, USA.; Division of Nephrology, Department of Internal Medicine, University of California, Genome and Biomedical Sciences Building, Room 6311, 451 Health Sciences Dr, Davis, CA, 95616, USA. rhweiss@ucdavis.edu.
Authors
Kim Kyoungmi, Trott Josephine F, Gao Guimin, Chapman Arlene, Weiss Robert H
Studies

Abstract

Autosomal dominant polycystic kidney disease (ADPKD) is the most common hereditary kidney disease and is characterized by gradual cyst growth and expansion, increase in kidney volume with an ultimate decline in kidney function leading to end stage renal disease (ESRD). Given the decades long period of stable kidney function while cyst growth occurs, it is important to identify those patients who will progress to ESRD. Recent data from our and other laboratories have demonstrated that metabolic reprogramming may play a key role in cystic epithelial proliferation resulting in cyst growth in ADPKD. Height corrected total kidney volume (ht-TKV) accurately reflects cyst burden and predicts future loss of kidney function. We hypothesize that specific plasma metabolites will correlate with eGFR and ht-TKV early in ADPKD, both predictors of disease progression, potentially indicative of early physiologic derangements of renal disease severity.