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Two Pregnancies with a Different Outcome in a Patient with Alport Syndrome
Author(s) -
Biljana Gerasimovska Kitanovska,
Vesna Gerasimovska,
Vesna Livrinova
Publication year - 2016
Publication title -
open access macedonian journal of medical sciences
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.288
H-Index - 17
ISSN - 1857-9655
DOI - 10.3889/oamjms.2016.073
Subject(s) - medicine , alport syndrome , proteinuria , preeclampsia , pregnancy , pediatrics , kidney disease , renal function , obstetrics , nephrology , kidney , glomerulonephritis , biology , genetics
Alport syndrome is a genetic disease that progresses to chronic kidney failure, with X-linked, autosomal dominant or autosomal recessive type of inheritance. Women are generally carriers of the mutation and have a milder form of the disease. During pregnancy, they have an increased risk of impaired kidney function and preeclampsia.

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