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Disappearance of tophi in familial juvenile hyperuricemic nephropathy after kidney transplantation.
American journal of transplantation : official journal of the American Society of Transplantation and the American Society of Transplant Surgeons - 1 Nov 2007
Merieau E, Al Najjar A, Halimi J-M, Sacquépée M, Nivet H, Lebranchu Y, Büchler M
Abstract excerpt
A 40-year-old man who had been on hemodialysis for 25 months due to familial juvenile hyperuricemic nephropathy (FJHN) received a kidney transplant. Biopsy of his native kidney had shown tubulo-interstitial nephropathy. Genetic analysis confirmed abnormal uromodulin expression due to a mutation i...
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