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Alport Syndrome, Arkana Laboratories, diagnose this, renal pathology, kindey path, kidney disease
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Diagnose This (November 2, 2020)

What is this finding? In a young male patient with hematuria and hearing loss, what would be your top diagnosis?…

Alport Syndrome, COL4A5, COL4A3, COL4A4, Alport, X-linked, Hearing loss, GBM multilamellation
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Diagnose This (August 31, 2020)

What is your diagnosis based on this IF staining pattern in a patient with hematuria and proteinuria? …

Art of Medicine

Art of Medicine: Alport Syndrome- A Review of Ultrastructural Abnormalities

The above painting depicts electron microscopy of a case of Alport syndrome. Alport syndrome is a type of hereditary nephritis…


alport syndrome, disease week, arkana laboratories
Disease Week

Disease Week: Alport Syndrome

Monday In 1927, Dr. Cecil Alport published a series on “hereditary familial congenital haemorrhagic nephritis” where he described its association…

Alport Syndrome
By L. Nich Cossey, MD
GBM, glomerular basement membranes, diagnose this, arkana laboratories
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Diagnose This (January 28, 2019)

What is your diagnosis?     …

By L. Nich Cossey, MD

Alport Syndrome Detected with IF
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Alport IF

In patients suspected of having Alport syndrome, immunofluorescence staining can be used to detect abnormal expression of various alpha chains…

Alport Syndrome
Teaching Points

Alport Syndrome

This biopsy from a 22-year-old Hispanic male with a history of hematuria, subnephrotic proteinuria, and chronic kidney disease shows essentially…

X-linked Alport syndrome
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Alport Skin

The most common form of Alport syndrome shows an X-linked dominant inheritance pattern and is caused by mutations in the…