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polycystic kidney disease
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polycystic kidney disease

In medicine, an inherited disease in which the kidney contains many cysts. Continuing growth of the cysts results in the destruction of normal kidney tissue and kidney failure. Dialysis or kidney transplantation are the only methods of treating polycystic kidney disease



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