What are the various causes of PS?
Potter Syndrome is not technically a syndrome as it does not collectively present with the same telltale characteristics and symptoms in every case. It is technically a sequence, or chain of events – that may have different beginnings, but ends with the same conclusion. Below are the different ways that Potter Syndrome (A.K.A Potter Sequence) can begin due to various causes of renal failure. They have been given numbers to differentiate the different forms, but this system has not caught on in the medical and scientific communities. Potter Syndrome Type I is due to Autosomal Recessive Polycystic Kidney Disease (ARPKD), which occurs at a frequency of approximately 1:40,000 infants and is linked to a mutation in the gene PKHD1. Potter Syndrome Type II is due to Renal Adysplasia (RA), which also includes the category known as hereditary renal adysplasia (HRA). Renal adysplasia means that one kidney is absent and the other is very small and malformed. Bilateral renal agenesis (BRA) is cons
