The holiday season can bring a mix of emotions - joy, reflection, and sometimes the weight of loss. This special workshop, led by psychotherapist Vicki Cousins, offers a safe and compassionate space to explore the complexities of grief and loss, especially during the year-end holiday season.
The 2024 Toronto PKD Scientific Day, held on November 15, 2024, was a conference to review the clinical features and pathobiology of ADPKD; update recent advances in PKD translational research; illustrate how advances in diagnostic and therapeutic may impact clinical practice; and hold an expert discussion of challenging clinical cases....
The PKD Foundation of Canada presented our 4th annual virtual PKD Summit on Nov 6 & 7 2024. Sessions included Pediatric PKD, Mental Health & PKD, Caregiver Burnout, a French session on answers to your burning questions about PKD, Metabolic Health & Its Effect on PKD, Debunking PKD Nutrition Myths,...
Our three 2024 virtual PKD Patient Forums for Atlantic, Central and Western Canada featured regional nephrologists sharing information and answering questions about polycystic kidney disease, along with regional PKD patients sharing the stories of their personal journeys with PKD.
How do you ask a stranger to donate a kidney to you? This webinar delved into creating a compelling living organ donor appeal, and also featured a patient story of a successful living donor appeal.
This webinar on the topic of living kidney donation answers a number of questions that people affected by polycystic kidney disease (PKD) may have about the living kidney donation process. Panelists included experts from Canadian Blood Services and the Transplant Ambassador Program, as well as a patient story from a...
The video recording from our March webinar on the topic of Nutrition and PKD is now available on our YouTube channel! This fun and informative webinar featured a cooking demonstration of a recipe from our new PKD cookbook, Love Your Kidneys.
Last week's webinar on the Kidney Paired Donation (KPD) program is now up on our YouTube channel! Kidney paired donation is a program that matches transplant candidates with suitable living donors. It gives people the chance to become a living kidney donor while ensuring that someone they want to help receives...
This webinar introduces the topic of itching related to Chronic Kidney Disease. Dr. Karthik Tennankore discusses chronic kidney disease associated pruritis (CKD-aP), how physicians screen and evaluate for CKD-aP, and treatment options for CKD-aP, including emerging therapies.
Dr. Leslie Lilly summarizes the role of liver transplantation in the management of PKD and PLD, and also discusses the outcomes of liver transplantation in patients with these diseases. He is joined by PKD patient and two-time liver transplant recipient, Jan Robertson, who shares her journey through the transplant process....