Familial Polycystic Kidney Disease in Nigeria: A Report of Two Cases

Abstract

A case of familial polycystic kidney disease is re- ported. Although isolated cases of adult polycystic kidney disease have been reported in our environment, no case to our knowledge has been reported with a familial link. Polycystic kidney disease is said to be rare in Afri- cans. Although it commonly terminates in chronic renal failure, it hardly features in the actiopathogenesis of end stage renal disease requiring some form of renal replace- ment therapy iii African series. This, some worlters be- lieve may be due to misdiagnosis and under reporting. "This report is to show that it may not be as rare as suspected, and that the familiar I link shown in the advanced countries is also a applicable here. Case I was diagnosed in the course of evaluation of her clinical disease. Case 2, an aunt of Case I, was diagnosed following investigation of a casual complaint of a painless abdominal mass in the wake of her senior brother’s death from hemorrhagic stroke.