HEREDITARAY

KIDNEY DISEASE

ADTKD

Support Group

ADTKD is the medical term for a group of genetic kidney diseases and stands  for Autosomal Dominant Tubulointerstitial Kidney Disease. Matryoshka symbolizes the inheritance from generation to generation.

This website provides information for affected families as well as doctors, supporters and sponsors. We welcome donations.

"Every nephrologist cares for an
ADTKD-Family."

Anthony Bleyer, Wake Forest University


LogoKidney research UK

Here you will find a report on the ADTKD-UMOD Patient Day, which took place at the Freeman Hospital Newcastle in June 2024. Experts provided information on various aspects of the disease, such as symptoms, genetic diagnostics and therapeutic options. An active substance has been identified in the USA that may be able to slow down the progression of the disease.
To the detailed report



ADTKD Webinar 2024

ERKNet/ERA Webinar: ADTKD


Jan Halbritter, Charité – Universitätsmedizin Berlin & Christian Scheidler, ADKTD Vision Cure e.V.

Topics include indications for genetic testing, subtypes  and variants, biological and clinical characteristics, modern diagnostic procedures, especially for ADTKD-MUC1, and potential treatments.


To the recording:

www.youtube.com


ASN Kidney Week 2024

ADTKD at ASN Kidney Week


Never before have there been so many research papers on
autosomal dominant tubulointerstitial kidney disease (ADTKD) as this time at the American Society of Nephrology's (ASN) Kidney Week, which takes place from October 24 to 28 in San Diego. Also European working groups are represented . Here is an overview of the abstracts.


Flavia Galetti (PKD International, Roser Torra (President of ERA), Christian Scheidler (ADTKD Vision Cure)

ERA Conference 2024

ADTKD diagnostics in Europe: Where do we stand and what is needed?


Under the title "ADTKD genetic diagnostics in Europe: Where do we stand and what is needed?", our patient organization was represented with its own contribution at this year's conference of the European Renal Association (ERA) in Stockholm/Sweden. The most important result: there is a lack of comprehensive ADTKD-MUC1       diagnostics in Europe. The probability that there are still many undetected ADTKD patients is therefore high. 

Here you can find a report   on the congress and details of our survey of European ADTKD experts. The feedback on the hurdles   is particularly interesting.


To the report


ADTKD-Net, Startschuss für europäisches Register

ADTKD-Net: Kick off for European ADTKD registry


In March 2024, scientists, basic researchers and nephrologists as well as a patient representative from 10 European countries met in Berlin at Charité University Hospital to kick off the ADTKD-Net research project. Existing national cohorts will be brought together as part of the established platform of the European Reference Network for Rare Kidney Diseases (ERKNet). 


Go to the report


E-Seminar ERA 2023: ADTKD

ERA e-Seminar 2023


Eric Olinger
reports on the latest findings. Topics include the known subtypes, clinical characteristics, epidemiological data and diagnostic challenges. These mainly concern ADTKD-MUC1 and could be overcome in the future by new methods such as VNtyper. Other focal points are differential diagnosis and therapeutic approaches for UMOD and MUC1.

To the video (external page)



ADTKD is the medical term for a group of genetic kidney diseases and stands  for Autosomal Dominant Tubulointerstitial Kidney Disease. Each of these diseases is caused by a specific gene mutation that causes kidney function to weaken.


Research into an ADTKD therapy is being conducted in many countries. The work is most advanced in the USA. A compound has been identified that can at least delay the disease in ADTKD-MUC1 in laboratory trials. A clinical trial with is planned for 2024.  

Die Diagnose The only reliable ADTKD diagnosis is a genetic test. This requires a blood sample. Here you can find out when and why such a test can be useful and how exactly it is carried out.



Renal anaemie

HIF-stabilizing agents in ADTKD-MUC1
Anemia drug accelerates disease progression

Anaemia should rather not be treated with HIF   stabilizing    agents in patients with the disease ADTKD-MUC1 who do not require dialysis. This is suggested by the results of a preclinical study published by researchers at the University of Erlangen. More...



Genetic testing for the MUC1 subtype is a bottleneck in the diagnosis of ADTKD patients. The problem is that the variant cannot be detected using next generation sequencing (NGS). An overview of laboratories in Europe that can carry out MUC1 testing can be found here.

Here you find video recordings of different ADTKD webinars held by ERKNet and our US partners, as well as many other links to organisations working on rare kidney diseases. 

 

We as family are affected by ADTKD ourselves. Our goal to provide information for other ADTKD families as well as for nephrologists treating ADTKD patients. We also aim to find other ADTKD patients in Europe.



Events

4.-5. April 2025

4th International ADTKD Summit

Online (in Englisch)

Program and registry:

www.rarekidney.org

19. –21. May 2025

ERKNet Annual Conference

Germany

www.erknet.org


4. –7. June 2025

ERA Kongress

Wien (Austria)



www.era-online.org


2. –5. October 2025

DGfN Annual Conference

Berlin (Germany)


www.nephrologie-kongress.de/


Highlights

VISION CURE
A Story of Hope

Two families with a mysterious kidney disease and a researcher whose curiosity is piqued. A feature in the American STAT magazine describes how the cause of ADTKD-MUC1 disease was found and how this discovery led to a potentially effective therapy. The main protagonists are scientist Anna Greka from the Broad Institute, nephrologist Anthony Bleyer from Wake Forest University and the Nelson family.

Click here for the report