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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?…
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: 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…
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 IF
In patients suspected of having Alport syndrome, immunofluorescence staining can be used to detect abnormal expression of various alpha chains…
Alport Syndrome
This biopsy from a 22-year-old Hispanic male with a history of hematuria, subnephrotic proteinuria, and chronic kidney disease shows essentially…
Alport Skin
The most common form of Alport syndrome shows an X-linked dominant inheritance pattern and is caused by mutations in the…
