"What? My father had kidney disease? And it's hereditary?"
After Liu Banxia came out and explained the autopsy results to the patient's family, the patient's son anxiously blurted out.
Liu Banxia nodded. "Polycystic kidney disease is a genetic condition. One type is recessive and commonly affects infants. The other is dominant and typically appears in young to middle-aged adults.
"From the current findings, your father had the dominant type. A significant impact of polycystic kidney disease is high blood pressure and cerebral aneurysms. We found three cerebral aneurysms during a cursory examination of your father's brain."
"That can't be right. My father didn't have kidney disease. I've seen people with kidney disease; my father had no such problems," the patient's son said, shaking his head.
