Polycystic Kidney Disease Associated with Polycystic Ovarian Syndrome

Polycystic kidney disease associated with pregnancy.

The Current view regarding renal disease complicating pregnancy suggests that there are no adverse effects on the kidney if kidney function is only moderately compromised in the absence of hypertension. Sustenance of a viable pregnancy depends mainly on the degree of functional impairment rather than on the underlying parenchymal disease. Polycystic kidney disease should be included in the diff...

Polycystic ovarian syndrome.

Polycystic ovarian syndrome (PCOS) is the most common reproductive endocrinopathy of women during their childbearing years. A significant degree of controversy exists regarding the etiology of this syndrome, but there is a growing consensus that the key features include insulin resistance, androgen excess, and abnormal gonadotropin dynamics. Familial and genetic factors cause predisposition to ...

Polycystic Ovarian Syndrome

PCOS was first recognized as a medical disease or syndrome in the West in 1845 in France. Its most distinctive sign is the pathologic appearance of sclerocystic changes on the larger than average ovaries, which appeared to have a thick, shiny, white coating overlying many rows of cysts on the surface of the ovary. These ovarian changes give PCOS its name. In 1990 a National Institute of Health ...

Polycystic ovarian disease and associated factors

1. The authors state that lipid abnormality may occur in polycystic ovary syndrome (PCOS) irrespective of insulin resistance (IR) in overweight and obese women. Indian literature showed that about one fourth of PCOS women have normal body mass index (BMI) [2]. PCOS women with normal BMI are very difficult to treat and monitor. Does the lipid abnormality exit in this category of women also, and ...

Kartagener's syndrome and polycystic kidney disease