Article
[The first experience in Russia of using DNA diagnosis in Alport's syndrome in a family with a unique morphological picture of the kidney lesion].
Terapevticheskii arkhiv - 1 Jan 1995
Tsalikova F D, Ignatova M S, Krasnopol'skaia K D, Tverskaia S M, Brydun A V
Abstract excerpt
Clinicomorphological findings are reported for two children from families with hereditary predisposition to hematuria characterized by early occurrence of chronic renal insufficiency, neurosensory hypoacusis, congenital ocular abnormalities inherited by sex-linked dominant type. Light microscopy of nephrobiopsies revealed diffuse mesangial proliferation in both children. Final diagnosis of Alport's syndrome was...
Topics
- Adolescent
- Adult
- Biopsy
- Collagen
- DNA
- Diagnosis, Differential
- Female
- Genetic Linkage
- Humans
- Kidney
- Male
- Mutation
