Isolated glomerular proteinuria as the only clinical manifestation of Fabry's disease in an adult male

Mietta Meroni, C Spisni, S. Tazzari, Roberto Di Vito, A. Stingone, I. Bovan, Laura Torri Tarelli, Adalberto Sessa

Nephrology Dialysis Transplantation · 1997 · 20 citations · 3 references

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Abstract

Key words: Fabry disease; glomerular proteinuria; lipid involvement, and the third phase involves vascular,storage diseases; hereditary kidney diseases; glyco- cardiac, and cerebral disease and renal functionalsphingolipids; alpha-galactosidase A; angiokeratomas; deterioration.acroparaesthesias; corneal opacities Death occurs around the fifth decade from renal,cardiac, and cerebral complications. Nevertheless, clin-ical evidence supports phenotypic heterogeneity ofFabry’s disease, and genetic heterogeneity has been

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