Prevalence of Spinal Meningeal Diverticula in Autosomal Dominant Polycystic Kidney Disease.

ABSTRACT:

Background and purpose

Patients with autosomal dominant polycystic kidney disease (ADPKD) develop cysts in the kidneys, liver, spleen, pancreas, prostate, and arachnoid spaces. In addition, spinal meningeal diverticula have been reported. To determine whether spinal meningeal diverticula are associated with ADPKD, we compared their prevalence in subjects with ADPKD with a control cohort without ADPKD.

Materials and methods

Subjects with ADPKD and age- and sex-matched controls without ADPKD undergoing abdominal MRI from the midthorax to the pelvis from 2003 to 2023 were retrospectively evaluated for spinal meningeal diverticula by 4 blinded observers. The prevalence of spinal meningeal diverticula in ADPKD was compared with that in control subjects, using t tests and c

SUBMITTER: Sattar U 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11735424 | biostudies-literature | 2025 Jan

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature