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Anticipation of end stage renal disease in patients with autosomal dominant polycystic kidney disease in successive generations.
Renal failure - 1 Sept 2001
Sotirakopoulos N, Tsitsios T, Stambolidou M, Cristodoulidou C, Spaia S, Mavromatidis K
Abstract excerpt
Autosomal dominant polycystic kidney disease is a disorder, which is inherited in 50% of offspring, irrelevant the sex and it has a variable clinical expressivity. Initially it was noticed that the clinical expression was interfamilial, but some studies found out that it was different. The aim of this study was to evaluate the age of onset of end-stage renal disease (ESRD) in affected parents in comparison with...
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