Effective Technical Writing in the Life Sciences

The tips and abilities exhibited can be connected quickly and will be clear in the absolute first archive that you compose after this virtual course.

In the wake of setting the phase for this substance, we dive into the composition procedure starting with the group of spectators and how the crowd must be dissected to decide the dimension of composing that must be utilized to finish the report.

Social occasion the data to be incorporated into the specialized report requires coordinated effort between the essayist and the different topic specialists that have the learning to be reaped. How that data is accumulated can be a successful productive procedure or an insufficient tedious undertaking all ward upon the strategies utilized to execute the action.

We will address the best systems for removing data from SMEs just as those methods that work best when watching methodology and exercises to be recorded.

Why You have to know

Indeed, even with the approach of innovation, despite everything we speak with the composed word.  Technical composing is tied in with passing on data rapidly, precisely, plainly, and succinctly.  How we impart, how we are comprehended, and how the message is gotten legitimately relies on our aptitudes as specialized writers.  In the existence sciences, this ability is exceedingly significant.

In the existence sciences, a lot is on the line as far as the composition’s capacity to empower 100% precise comprehension of the substance and where appropriate, execution of the undertaking or system documented.  In the existence sciences, that could mean the contrast between crucial, security or damage, misfortune or recuperation, tainting or virtue, achievement or disappointment.

Shockingly, specialized composing isn’t an expertise that is given much accentuation in school educational plans if any.  Technical composing is an ability, life sciences laborers are accepted to have and are relied upon to exhibit at a dimension of aptitude more often than not past the capacity of most.  Unfortunately, most perusers of specialized composing are in the “same boat.”  They “don’t have a clue about a decent one when they see one.” At the day’s end, by and large, you have fair composition, best case scenario that could possibly pass on the message planned.

This virtual workshop will walk you through the specialized composition process from begin to finish.  Each basic part of composing specialized reports for the existence sciences will be tended to with the objective of helping you become better specialized writers.  The tips and abilities exhibited can be connected quickly and will be clear in the absolute first archive that you compose after this virtual course.

  • What is technical writing, and what role does technical writing play in the life sciences?
  • Technical writers in the life sciences – what do they write – types of medium
  • Analyzing the audience
  • Analyzing the information – working with Subject Matter Experts
  • Planning the content
  • Formats, consistency and styles
  • Non-native audience considerations
  • Grammar, spelling, punctuation, numbers and symbols
  • Simplify your writing
  • Ensuring accuracy

By the Instructor Charles H. Paul is the President of C. H. Paul Consulting, Inc. – a regulatory, manufacturing, training, and technical documentation consulting firm – celebrating its twentieth year in business in 2017. Charles has been a regulatory and management consultant and an Instructional Technologist for 30 years and has published numerous white papers on various regulatory and training subjects. The firm works with both domestic and international clients designing solutions for complex training and documentation issues.

He has held senior positions in consulting and in corporate training development prior to forming C. H. Paul Consulting, Inc.. He also worked for several years in government contracting managing the development of significant Army-wide training development contracts impacting virtually all of the active Army and changing the training paradigm throughout the military.

Seminar on Validation and Troubleshooting of Pharmaceutical Water Systems

 Description:

This course is designed to provide a microbiology-focused education about all aspects of water systems and how biofilm manages to thrive there. Prior microbiological education or training, though a plus, is not a requirement because engineers and other non-biologists also need this training if they are involved with any aspect of water systems. The instructor will provide the necessary background needed to understand this very important subject matter. This understanding is essential to the proper design, validation, operation, monitoring, maintenance, troubleshooting, and excursion investigations of a high purity water system. Without this understanding, water system control consists of a set of rules that often don’t work and can cause very costly system downtime or even product recalls, and leaves the user without a clue as to what went wrong or how to effectively fix it so it doesn’t recur.

Why you Should attend:

Much fear and hype exists with pharmaceutical biofilms, especially those in water systems. Long term biofilm control cannot be achieved from a blind set of hand-me-down rules for design and operation. One must truly understand biofilm to be able to control it. And because every water system is unique, understanding how biofilm is trying to grow in your system, which could be different than any other system. This course will give you that understanding that is translatable to any system, so that uneventful microbial control is possible. Without this understanding you will quickly find that blind rules for operation (and design) eventually fail to work, and the consequences of failure will far exceed the educational costs that could have prevented it.

Who Will Benefit:

This 2-day course is particularly relevant to managers, supervisors, and operatives taking on new responsibilities related to water, but also for experienced water personnel to learn the “true” whys behind what they do and perhaps better ways of doing things. Specific positions that would benefit are:

  • Microbiology Laboratory supervisors and analysts responsible for water sampling and testing
  • Quality Assurance personnel responsible for water system deviation management and change control
  • Regulatory and Compliance professionals responsible for FDA interactions
  • Process and Utility Engineers responsible for water system maintenance, repairs, troubleshooting, and excursion mitigation
  • Facility Engineers responsible for water system design or renovation

Agenda:

Day 1 Schedule

Lecture 1:

What Makes Water Systems Have Microbial Quality Problems

  • Understand biofilm basics and how it develops
  • Understand the impact of biofilm on the commonly used purification unit operations
  • Understand how various commonly used microbial control strategies work (or don’t work) to control biofilm development
  • Understand the how, where, and why of microbial monitoring, action levels, etc.
  • Debunk a few water system myths
  • Get answers to your own water system questions

Lecture 2:

Successful Sanitization Approaches for Trouble-Free Water Quality

  • Material and construction limitations
  • Continuous vs intermittent sanitization
  • The importance of biofilm removal
  • How sanitants work (or don’t work)
  • When to sanitize
  • Troubleshooting sanitization problems

Lecture 3:

Water System Validation by Logic Instead of Tradition

  • Why validate a water system?
  • Basic ground rules for water systems before you validate them
  • Micro Test Method “validation”
  • Minimum validation expectations
  • How to figure out what you should validate
  • What happens after the honeymoon is over
  • Is validation ever really over?
  • Special considerations for lab water systems
  • Are packaged waters a viable option?

Lecture 4:

Implementing Changes to a Validated System

  • Purpose of a Change Control program – a help, not a hindrance
  • When is a change major vs minor, requiring full vs limited re-qualification?
  • What about water use during re-qualifications?
  • FDA validation expectations
  • Reliance on logic and common sense and the disservice of precedent and paradigms
  • Additional useful tips

Lecture 5:

Reducing Water Microbial Excursions & Improving Investigations

  • What are excursions?
  • Water system dilemma: process control or quality control (utility or raw material), or both
  • Intended roles of Alert/Action Levels and Specifications
  • Investigation, necessary and often fruitless
  • Excursion responses and impact
  • Criticality of valves, hoses, & outlet flushing
  • Diagnosing the source of the problem
  • Minimizing unnecessary excursion responses through best practices

Day 2 Schedule

Lecture 6:

Understanding and Controlling Endotoxin

  • Where does endotoxin come from?
  • What are the properties of endotoxin?
  • How do you get rid of it?
  • How do you detect it?
  • What assay controls are used?
  • What are the endotoxin specs for water?
  • How do you control it?

Lecture 7:

Harmonizing vs Optimizing Water Microbial Testing for System Quality Control

  • Water harmonization that has occurred
  • Water Micro TM “Dis-Harmonization”
  • A little about Biofilm
  • Biofilm diversity in water systems
  • Micro TM options and evaluation protocol
  • The good and bad of Micro harmonization
  • Where RMMs can fit in
  • Parting wisdom

Lecture 8:

Microbial Enumeration Issues with High Purity Water Systems

  • Microbial Enumeration Issues with High Purity Water Systems
  • Biofilm enumeration issues (planktonic vs surface)
  • Traditional cultivative approach issues
  • Validation of your test method
  • Alternative TM choices (advantages/disadvantages)
  • Significance of water isolates
  • Sampling issues
  • Establishing Alert/Action Levels and Water Specs and defending them to FDA

Lecture 9:

Water System Investigation “How-To’s” and Example Case Studies

  • Gathering and assessing existing data and symptoms
  • Considering user opinions
  • Investigation approach elements
  • Recognizing red herrings/false positives
  • Recognizing possible root causes
  • Water system contamination case studies
  • Parting kernels of water system wisdom

Lecture 10:

What USP Does and Doesn’t Say about PW, WFI, Pure Steam and Micro Issues

  • PW, WFI, Pure Steam micro specifications?
  • <1231> Starting water issues
  • <1231> Misunderstood issues clarified
  • <1231> Microbiological test issues clarified
  • <1231> Suggested micro test method
  • <1231> Micro Specifications
  • <1231> Alert and Action Levels and max’s
  • Recent/Upcoming USP water changes
  • Discrepancies between pharmacopeia’s

 

Speaker:

Dr Teri C. Soli

Principal Consultant, Soli Pharma Solutions

T.C. Soli is a Ph.D. Microbiologist and President of Soli Pharma Solutions, Inc. offering troubleshooting and training expertise covering water systems, sterilization, sterile and non-sterile manufacturing, microbiological laboratories, and microbial and beta-lactam contamination control. He has 38 years of pharmaceutical experience as a consultant and with operating companies including DSM Pharmaceuticals, Glaxo Wellcome, Burroughs Wellcome, and Pfizer.

His career-long water systems and contamination troubleshooting experience, coupled with water-related USP, ISPE, PhRMA, and PDA committee involvements, afford him practical knowledge about contamination control; cleaning, sterilization and process validation; and all aspects of high purity water systems.

Location:  Philadelphia, PA Date: April 23rd & 24th, 2019 and Time: 9:00 AM to 6:00 PM

Venue:  DoubleTree by Hilton Philadelphia Airport, 4509 Island Avenue, Philadelphia, PA 19153

 

 

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Effective Technical Writing in the Life Sciences

The most effective techniques for extracting information from SMEs as well as those techniques that work best when observing procedures and activities to be documented.

Technical writing and its role within the life sciences. Technical writers produce a variety of technical documents that are required to manage and direct regulated operations and to meet regulatory requirements. We will spend some time in this webinar discussing those document types, their importance, and the consequences of the messages are unclear or misunderstood.

After setting the stage for this content, we delve into the writing process beginning with the audience and how the audience must be analyzed to determine the level of writing that must be employed to complete the document.

Gathering the information to be included in the technical document requires collaboration between the writer and the various subject matter experts that possess the knowledge to be harvested. How that information is gathered can be an effective efficient process or an ineffective time-consuming endeavor all dependent upon the techniques employed to execute the activity. We will address the most effective techniques for extracting information from SMEs as well as those techniques that work best when observing procedures and activities to be documented.

Why you have to know

->Even with the advent of technology, we still communicate with the written word. Technical writing is about conveying information quickly, accurately, clearly, and succinctly. How we communicate, how we are understood, and how the message is received directly depends upon our skills as technical writers. In the life sciences, this skill is exceedingly important.

->In the life sciences, the stakes are high in terms of the writing’s ability to enable 100% accurate understanding of the content and where applicable, performance of the task or procedure documented. In the life sciences, that could mean the difference between life or death, safety or injury, loss or recovery, contamination or purity, success or failure.

->Unfortunately, technical writing is not a skill that is given much emphasis in college curriculums if any. Technical writing is a skill, life sciences workers are assumed to have and are expected to demonstrate at a level of skill usually beyond the capability of most. Unfortunately, most readers of technical writing are in the “same boat.” They “don’t know a good one when they see one.”  At the end of the day, in most cases, you have mediocre writing at best that may or may not convey the message intended.

->This virtual seminar will walk you through the technical writing process from start to finish. Each critical aspect of writing technical documents for the life sciences will be addressed with the goal of helping you become better technical writers. The tips and skills presented can be applied immediately and will be evident in the very first document that you write after this virtual seminar.

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Risk management methods and tools in the pharmaceutical and life sciences industries

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Understanding and implementing risk management methods and tools is crucial for the pharmaceutical and life sciences industries in view of the fact that errors in this area can lead to dangers for human life. Since any mistake in any chain of in this industry can lead to serious consequences; the FDA and other regulatory agencies have created a number of risk management methods and tools for these industries.

A few commonly used risk management methodsIn the pharmaceutical and life sciences area, a few commonly used risk management methods and tools for organizing data and using these to help in decision-making include the following:

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A few popular risk management methods and toolsIn the field of pharmaceuticals and life sciences, these can be said to be some of the more popularly used risk management methods and tools:

Failure Mode Effects Analysis (FMEA)FMEA is a popular one among the risk management methods and tools mainly because it provides a methodology for assessing a potential failure mode for the process that goes into the manufacturing of the pharma or life sciences product and helps to analyze their possible impact on the product’s ability to perform to its required standard.

risk-in-pharmaceutical-and-life-sciences-industriesIdentification and establishment of failure modes are taken as the basis for using risk reduction techniques for eliminating, containing, reducing or controlling the possible failures. Since FMEA depends on a deep understanding of the product and the process; its main steps include dissembling complex processes into simpler and comprehensible ones. For this reason, FMEA is considered a potent risk management method and tool.

Failure, Mode, Effects, and Criticality Analysis (FMECA)Extending the concept of FMEA a little farther, the Failure, Mode, Effects, and Criticality Analysis (FMECA) takes into account the added feature of the extent of gravity of the consequences of a fault or failure, along with the possibility of their occurrence, as well as the chance of their detection. While this is the slight extension that the FMECA brings to FMEA; it is similar to it in other respects, namely:

risk-in-pharmaceutical-and-life-sciences-industriesFMECA too, like FMEA, uses identification and establishment of the process specification to identify risks and failures

FMECA too uses the method of breaking down difficult processes to easier ones to enable better understanding of the failures and risks.

Fault Tree Analysis (FTA)Fault Tree Analysis is another of the risk management methods and tools. What this tool does is that it takes up a single fault at a time for analysis, but links the chains that cause the fault. This is why it gets its name, wherein the results of the analysis are represented in a shape of a tree, in which each level of fault is described with possibilities. A sharp and incisive analytical bent of mind is required to create the FTA.

Hazard Analysis and Critical Control Points (HACCP)HACCP is yet another important one among the risk management methods and tools. It takes a systematic and proactive approach in ensuring the following in a product:

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It is considered a comprehensive risk management method and tool because it addresses all the issues relating to risk management methods and tools, applying scientific principles and methods for carrying out the following:

risk-in-pharmaceutical-and-life-sciences-industriesControlling of the risk or the negative outcomes of hazard, which could be due to any of these:

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Supporting statistical tools
risk-in-pharmaceutical-and-life-sciences-industriesWhile all the risk management methods and tools described above are a snapshot of some of the major ones, a few supporting statistical tools, too, are used to engender quality risk management. These are some of them:

 

 

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Digital Marketing for Pharmaceutical companies offers tremendous opportunities

There is enormous potential for digital marketing for pharmaceutical companies. Proper exploitation of the social media can take pharmaceutical companies to their market in a more pinpointed and accurate manner than traditional marketing.

Gone are the initial days of reluctance on the part of pharmaceutical companies to embrace social media as a powerful marketing medium. That was in the past, when the concept of social media was new, and regulations in the pharmaceutical industry had yet to catch up with explosive pace at which the social media grew.

More and more pharmaceutical companies are on the social media

Today, one is likely to see any pharmaceutical company worth its name being active on YouTube, Facebook and Twitter to interact with its customers. Changes brought about by digital marketing in the pharmaceutical industry have seen companies like Johnson and Johnson and Pfizer being among the several majors associated with YouTube lately for creating and promoting their image. This is a result of the realization that social media can, far from being unconducive to the industry, can be quite amiable to it.

  • In a study in late 2014, the New England Journal of Medicine estimated that leading pharmaceutical companies spend up to a quarter of their marketing budgets on the social media
  • The study pointed out that the social media were as powerful and effective as EHRs and mobile applications as marketing tools, signaling a new dynamic for digital marketing in the pharmaceutical industry.

Social media as a key differentiator

The defining area in which the social media can be different and more effective than traditional marketing tactics for pharmaceutical companies is this: earlier methods such as trade conferences, promotions, gifting doctors for prescribing a company’s brands were effective, but were carried out outside the healthcare setting and in isolation of the patient. The reach and intervention of the social media has made digital marketing for pharmaceutical companies so much more effective that they can get right into the arena of treatment and be of assistance with valuable inputs and suggestions.

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Data Mining and Signal Detection in Pharmacovigilance

Data Mining and Signal Detection in Pharmacovigilance

A signal is described by the World Health Organization as any information that is reported on a possible or potential causal relationship between a drug and the adverse event it spawns. This relationship can be of virtually any nature, so long as it concerns the drug and the subject, and it could be either new or one with a precedent.

Data mining can be described as the method of obtaining data from target groups to help the clinical study come to important assessments and conclusions. Many a time, it is not clear whether a drug’s expected benefits outweighs the potential risks it brings about or vice versa, till the drug goes for marketing authorization. In order to assess this to the extent possible, clinical pharmacologists weigh the benefit and risk evaluation of medicines using tools such as data mining. Data mining is done both at the individual level of a subject and at the macro level of the population at large. These two methods are usually inseparable from each other, in that almost no study is done exclusively for one group.

Given its ability to help pharmacologists discern the various patterns that emerge from a clinical study; data mining is acquiring a position of importance of late and is being used in almost all stages of drug development. This could range from the earliest stage, namely drug discovery and could go up to post-marketing surveillance.

The WHO’s Uppsala Monitoring Centre

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In order to make the results of very clinical study done in every part of the world accessible to everyone – a formidable task without doubt – the WHO has formulated the Uppsala Monitoring Center. This is a universal database of all the results obtained from clinical research the world over. Although voluntary and missing data from a many studies; the UMC is a comprehensive attempt at establishing a data mining and signal detection system that is accessible to everyone concerned. The UMC can thus be considered the universal data mining and signal detection database.

With over 2.5 million case reports of various clinical studies done all around the world, the UMC has evolved over time as a data mining and signal detection database. It initially started by requiring principals of clinical studies to generate new drug and Adverse Drug Reactions (ADR) combinations every three months. With the growth in the number of studies and the variety of issues they threw up; this was no longer considered feasible.

The UMC then started out to create its own method, by which the principles of making an objective initial assessment of all new drug and ADR combinations started getting implemented as they emerged. To this were added the requirements of bringing about a transparent selection of drug – ADR combinations for review, as well as suggest a quantitative aid to data mining and signal detection.

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Today, the UMC uses several methodologies to carry out its task of being at the forefront of data mining and signal detection. It uses the Bayesian Confidence Propagation Neural Network, which uses Bayesian statistics within the architecture of a neural network for data mining and signal detection.

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Biotech and Pharmaceutical Courses are a gateway to a challenging and flourishing career

Biotech and Pharmaceutical Courses are a gateway to a challenging and flourishing careerWith over four million employed directly or in allied sectors and catering to the world’s largest market and research area, biotech and pharma is a fast growing industry. Its courses are designed to prepare individuals for this giant industry.

Biotech and pharmaceutical courses are much sought after by aspiring professionals in the field of biotech and pharma. This is why:

  • The US is the world’s largest market for pharmaceuticals, as well as being the world leader in biopharmaceutical research
  • Research by Pharmaceutical Research and Manufacturers Association (PhRMA) has revealed that the majority of the world’s research and development (R & D) in pharmaceuticals is conducted by U.S. firms
  • These firms hold the intellectual property (IP) rights on most new medicines.

Huge in every sense

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Around 5,000 new medicines with approximately 3,400 compounds are currently being studied in the United States, the longest pipeline in any region in the world. The pharmaceutical industry employs nearly a million people and supports more than three times that number in related and supplementary industries. All these place a high demand on biotech and pharmaceutical courses.

What should those aspiring for courses look for?

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Certification is the primary criterion to look out in those seeking a biotech and pharmaceutical courses. Whether it is classroom or online courses that are opted for; certification by a certifying authority should be the determining admission to biotech and pharmaceutical courses.

CFPIE or the Center for Professional Innovation and Education Inc., BioPharma Institute and Center for Professional Advancement (CFPA) are some of the better known providers of certified biotech and pharmaceutical courses. This is a partial list of the areas on which courses are offered by these institutes/centers:

The following tripod of software-related issues forms the IEC 62304:2006’s foundation:

biotechandPharmaceuticalCoursesThese three attributes form the backbone of the test of a medical device company’s successful compliance with the regulatory requirements. For a medical device company to be successful in applying ISO 14971:2012 and IEC 62304:2006; it has to implement a cross-standard and resourceful way of integrating activities covering these requirements documents.

 

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Thousands of drugs at risk if no Brexit deal, European pharmaceutical companies warn

Brexit threatens the free flow of these goods, given stringent medicine regulations that may require the retesting of drugs shipped across borders in the absence of an agreed trading arrangement.

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Supplies of thousands of medicines are at risk of disruption if Britain leaves the European Union without a trade deal, European pharmaceutical companies warned on Thursday. More than 2,600 drugs have some stage of manufacture in Britain and 45 million patient packs are supplied from the UK to other European countries each month, while another 37 million flow in the opposite direction. Brexit threatens the free flow of these goods, given stringent medicine regulations that may require the retesting of drugs shipped across borders in the absence of an agreed trading arrangement.

The European Federation of Pharmaceutical Industries and Associations (Efpia) said a survey of its members showed 45 percent of companies expected trade delays if Britain and Europe fell back onto World Trade Organization rules after Brexit. Drugmakers also face an additional hurdle when it comes to licensing their products, since more than 12,000 medicines will require a separate UK licence in order for them to be prescribed. “For life-saving and life-improving medicines, the EU and UK cannot afford to wait any longer to ensure that the necessary cooperation on medicines is in place from the day the UK leaves the EU,” said Efpia Director General Nathalie Moll.

Pharmaceutical companies have insisted since last year’s Brexit referendum that a comprehensive agreement is needed to ensure maximum alignment between EU and British pharmaceutical regulations. But with the clock ticking down to Brexit in March 2019 with no sign yet that a trade deal will be concluded, many companies are now starting to draw up plans to protect drug supply chains, including building extra testing centres in Europe.

 

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Lonza news Tolvaptan identified as a treatment for autosomal dominant polycystic kidney disease

A phase 3 trial studying the effects of tolvaptan has found that the drug slowed the rate of decline in kidney function in patients with polycystic kidney disease…

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A phase 3 trial studying the effects of tolvaptan has found that the drug slowed the rate of decline in kidney function in patients with the most common form of polycystic kidney disease, a condition with no cure.

This is the first treatment that targets a mechanism that directly contributes to the development and growth of the kidney cysts in autosomal dominant polycystic kidney disease

The results of the trial demonstrated tolvaptan’s ability to intervene in a way that slows kidney function decline in this population.

“This is the first treatment that targets a mechanism that directly contributes to the development and growth of the kidney cysts in autosomal dominant polycystic kidney disease,” says Dr Vicente Torres, director of Mayo Clinic’s Translational Polycystic Kidney Disease Center. “This in effect means it may delay the need for a kidney transplant or dialysis in patients with this disease.”

Autosomal dominant polycystic kidney disease is an inherited condition that affects 1 in every 500 to 1,000 individuals in the U.S. This disease is found in all races and sexes. Autosomal dominant polycystic kidney disease, which is the fourth most common cause of end-stage kidney disease, requires dialysis or a kidney transplant.

The disease causes a slow but relentless growth of cysts that damage the kidneys. In addition to negatively affecting the quality of life, the condition also causes hypertension and painful complications. The cysts, which can damage kidneys with their size, can develop in other organs, especially the liver.

Approximately half of individuals with autosomal dominant polycystic kidney disease eventually will require dialysis or kidney transplant by age 60.

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