Welcome! We're glad you've found us. Click the links below to explore our content for patients, caregivers, family, friends and organ donors at all stages of polycystic kidney disease (PKD).

Newly Diagnosed

• What is polycystic kidney disease (PKD)?
• Brochure: PKD Disease Background
• About ADPKD (autosomal dominant polycystic kidney disease)
• About ARPKD (autosomal recessive polycystic kidney disease)
• Brochure: ARPKD and CKD in Children
• Brochure: What is PKD? What Does the PKD Foundation of Canada Do?
• Brochure: Your Guide to Living with Polycystic Kidney Disease
• Brochure: Polycystic Kidney Disease: What Every Family Needs to Know
• Talking with family and friends about your PKD diagnosis
• Booklet: Having a Conversation with Your Adult Children about Your PKD Diagnosis
• Finding PKD Specialists
• Browse Educational Webinars about PKD

Genetics and Family Planning

• Screening and Testing for ADPKD
• Family Planning and Pregnancy with PKD

Kidney Health

• Browse Our PKD Health Blog
• Kidney Nutrition with PKD
• Booklet: Love Your Kidneys PKD Health Resource and Cookbook
• COVID and PKD

Mental Health

• The Impact of PKD on Mental Health
• PKD Mind Matters
• The Benefits of Peer Support in PKD
• PKD Peer Support Group (in partnership with the Kidney Foundation of Canada)
• Browse Our PKD Mind Matters Blog

Symptom Management

• Pain and PKD
• Itching and CKD (chronic kidney disease associated pruritis, CDC-aP)

Disease Progression

• Understanding Your PKD Lab Tests

Organ Donation and Transplant

• Blood, Organ and Tissue Donation
• Living Kidney Donation
• Finding an Organ Donor
• Kidney Paired Donation
• Transplant Resources and Peer Support - the Transplant Ambassador Program (TAP)