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Nephrogenic syndrome of inappropriate antidiuresis in adults: high phenotypic variability in men and women from a large pedigree.
Journal of the American Society of Nephrology : JASN - 1 Feb 2007
Decaux Guy, Vandergheynst Frédéric, Bouko Yasmina, Parma Jasmine, Vassart Gilbert, Vilain Catheline
Abstract excerpt
Nephrogenic syndrome of inappropriate antidiuresis (NSIAD) is a recently described genetic cause of hyponatremia in male infants. Whether this X-linked condition could be detected in the adult or also could affect women is unknown. A large five-generation family was identified in which the recently described arginine-vasopressin receptor type 2 (AVPR2) mutation that is responsible for NSIAD was segregated. The...
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