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La nefronoptisis es una enfermedad renal quística, de herencia autosómica recesiva, causada por mutaciones en genes que codifican proteínas involucradas en la función de cilios primarios, lo que resulta en enfermedad renal y manifestaciones extrarrenales como degeneración retiniana y fibrosis hepática. Según la edad de desarrollo de enfermedad renal crónica terminal, se describen tres formas clínicas de presentación: infantil, juvenil y adolescente. El diagnóstico se realiza por una prueba genética positiva o una biopsia de riñón que demuestre cambios tubulointersticiales crónicos con un engrosamiento de las membranas basales tubulares. No existe hasta la actualidad una terapia curativa, por lo que el trasplante renal oportuno es determinante en cuanto al pronóstico. Se presenta un paciente de 13 meses de edad con poliuria de 3 meses de evolución, insuficiencia renal, anemia y elevación de transaminasas. Con hallazgos histológicos compatibles en la biopsia renal, se arribó al diagnóstico de nefronoptisis infantil, con afectación hepática
Nephronophthisis is an autosomal recessive cystic kidney disease caused by mutations in genes that encode proteins involved in the primary cilia function, resulting in kidney disease and extrarenal manifestations such as retinal degeneration and liver fibrosis. According to the age of development of end-stage chronic kidney disease, three clinical forms of presentation are described: infantile, juvenile and adolescent. Diagnosis is made by a positive genetic test, or a kidney biopsy demonstrating chronic tubulointerstitial changes with thickening of the tubular basement membranes. At the moment there is no healing therapy, so early kidney transplant is a fundamental tool to improve prognosis.We present a 13-month old male patient with polyuria, kidney failure, anemia and elevated aminotransferases over three months. With compatible histological kidney biopsy, the diagnosis of infantile nephronophthisis with liver involvement was reached.
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Humans , Male , Infant , Kidney Diseases, Cystic/diagnosis , Kidney Diseases, Cystic/genetics , Kidney Diseases, Cystic/pathology , Kidney Diseases , Kidney Failure, Chronic/genetics , Proteins , Genetic TestingABSTRACT
Primary ciliary dyskinesia (PCD) is a hereditary disease characterized by airway mucociliary clearance dysfunction. The estimated prevalence of PCD is 1꞉10 000 to 1꞉20 000. The main respiratory manifestations in children are cough, expectoration, chronic rhinitis, sinusitis, and chronic otitis media, while the most common symptoms in adults are chronic sinusitis, bronchiectasis, and infertility. About 50% of patients with certain PCD-related gene variants are combined with situs inversus, and the incidence of congenital heart disease is also high. The pathogenesis behind PCD is that gene variants cause structural or functional disorders of respiratory cilia and motile cilia of other organs, leading to a series of heterogeneous clinical manifestations, which makes it difficult to identify and diagnose PCD. Combining different disease screening tools and understanding the relationship between genotypes and phenotypes may facilitate early diagnosis and treatment for PCD.
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Humans , Chronic Disease , Cilia/pathology , Kartagener Syndrome/genetics , Phenotype , SinusitisABSTRACT
Objective:To investigate and analyze the clinical phenotypes and genotypes in children diagnosed with nephronophthisis (NPHP), and to provide references for clinical diagnosis.Methods:Clinical data of 9 children with NPHP diagnosed by genetic testing in the Department of Nephrology, Wuhan Children′s Hospital from April 2017 to January 2022 were retrospectively collected. The clinical characteristics and genetic test results were analyzed.Results:The median onset age was 11.2(3.4, 14.2) years old in 9 patients, including 5 females and 4 males. There were 8 cases of glomerular proteinuria, 8 cases of renal tubular proteinuria, and 7 cases of reduced urinary gravity in 9 patients. All the children had varying degrees of impaired renal function at the time of diagnosis. Seven cases entered chronic kidney disease (CKD) stage 5, 1 case entered CKD stage 3, and 1 case entered CKD stage 4 at the time of diagnosis. All the children had renal ultrasound abnormalities of varying degrees: size change (3/9), echo enhancement (8/9) and cysts (3/9). Extrarenal phenotypes were present in 3 children. Genetic test showed that 6 patients had mutation of NPHP1 gene, 1 patient had mutation of WDR19 gene, 1 patient had mutation of NPHP3 gene and 1 patient had mutation of NPHP5 gene. Conclusions:Deletion mutation of NPHP1 gene is the most common, while NPHP3, NPHP5 and extremely rare WDR19 mutations have also been found in NPHP patients. The clinical manifestations of NPHP are not typical, so it is necessary to find a specific diagnosis method in the early.
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@#Fibroblast growth factor 8 (FGF8) is a kind of secretory polypeptide that has crucial roles in the development of various tissues and organs. Current studies have found that FGF8 can regulate the differentiation of cranial neural crest cells by activating the mitogen-activated protein kinase (MAPK) signaling pathway and affect the establishment of mandibular arch polarity and the development of craniofacial symmetry by regulating the expression of target genes. Cleft lip with or without cleft palate, ciliopathies, macrostomia and agnathia are four developmental malformations involving the craniofacial region that seriously affect the quality of life of patients. The abnormal FGF8 signal caused by gene mutation, abnormal protein conformation or expression is closely related to the occurrence of craniofacial malformations, but the molecular mechanism and signaling pathway underlying these malformations have not been fully elucidated. Craniofacial development is a complex process mediated by a variety of signaling molecules. In the future, the role of various signaling molecules in craniofacial development and malformations need to be explored to provide a new perspective and vision for the prevention and treatment of these craniofacial malformations.
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Oro-facial-digital syndrome is a group of rare heterogeneous hereditary disorders characterized by abnormalities of the oral cavity, face and digits, along with varying degrees of mental retardation. Currently, Oro-facial-digital syndrome has been classified into 14 types and two additional unclassified variants have been proposed. Amongst the various variants described, Oro-facial-digital syndrome type I is the most common. We report an interesting subclinical sporadic case of Oro-facial-digital syndrome type I in a 21-year-old female patient. Interestingly, our patient presented with a few novel hitherto unreported clinical findings like midline pits in the philtrum area and a hamartomatous proliferation of tissue in the anterior maxillary alveolar gingival region. This case report highlights the importance of prudent histopathological-clinical correlation, which can direct the flow of clinical investigations leading to the detection and diagnosis of unsuspected conditions as learned in this case. We would also like to emphasize that comprehensive examination of new born for structural abnormalities of the orofacial region is crucial to early diagnosis of syndromes and subsequent referral for further evaluation and management.
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Humans , Female , Adult , Palatal Neoplasms , Hamartoma , Cleft Palate , Early Diagnosis , CiliopathiesABSTRACT
Se presenta el caso de una niña de 7 años con el síndrome de Kartagener, con manifestaciones clínicas desde el nacimiento características de las afectaciones primarias de la motilidad ciliar: distrés respiratorio neonatal, rinosinusitis, otitis y bronquitis crónica, así como atelectasias y neumonía recurrente. Se destaca el carácter hereditario autosómico recesivo, la posibilidad de manifestaciones o malformaciones en otros aparatos o sistemas, en el niño o sus familiares. Como el diagnóstico temprano tiene un efecto significativo en la calidad de vida, y es una afección de difícil diagnóstico, se enfatiza en la necesidad de una sospecha clínica ante las manifestaciones características de una discinesia ciliar primaria, sobre todo, en niños con situs inversus.
A seven-year old patient with Kartagener syndrome and clinical manifestations at birth that characterize the primary effects of ciliary motility such as neonatal respiratory distress, rhinosinusitis, otitis and chronic bronchitis, atelectasis and recurrent pneumonia. It was underlined that this disease has autosomal recessive inheritance, the possible occurrence of symptoms or malformations in other apparatuses or systems, in the child or his/her relatives. Since the early diagnosis has a significant impact on the quality of life of the individual and this is a difficult-to-diagnose disease, emphasis was made on the need of clinically suspecting the existence of primary ciliary dyskinesia if there are characteristics manifestations of the disease, mainly in children with situs inversus.
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Humans , Kartagener Syndrome/complications , Kartagener Syndrome/diagnosis , Early DiagnosisABSTRACT
El síndrome orofaciodigital tipo I (OFD 1; OMIM #311200) es un trastorno del desarrollo transmitido como un rasgo dominante ligado al cromosoma X con letalidad en varones. Se asocia con manifestaciones clínicas a nivel oral, facial y digital. Se caracteriza, además, por la presencia de quistes de milia, hipotricosis y poliquistosis renal. Se presentan dos casos con diagnóstico clínico de síndrome orofaciodigital tipo I con cierta variabilidad fenotípica entre ellos.
Oral-facial-digital syndrome type 1 (OFD1; OMIM #311200) is a developmental disorder transmitted as an X-linked dominant condition with embryonic male lethality. It is associated with malformation of the oral cavity, face, and digits. Furthermore, it is characterized by the presence of milia, hypotrichosis and polycystic kidney disease. We present two cases with clinical diagnosis oforal-facial-digital syndrome type I with some phenotypic variability between them.