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Postgrad Med J 2002;78:759 doi:10.1136/pmj.78.926.759
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Renal involvement in an Anderson-Fabry heterozygote

  1. E J Kingdon,
  2. S G Holt,
  3. A Burns
  1. Centre for Nephrology, Royal Free and University College Medical School, University College London, UK
  1. Correspondence to:
 Dr E J Kingdon, Centre for Nephrology, Royal Free Campus, Royal Free and University College Medical School, University College London, Rowland Hill Street, London, NW3 2PF, UK;
 kingdon{at}rfc.ucl.ac.uk

    A 34 year old Algerian woman with no history of consanguinity was referred to the nephrology service in 1998 with oedema, proteinuria (3.5 g/24 hours), and hypoalbuminaemia (28 g/l). These abnormalities were identified immediately before pre-eclampsia precipitated the delivery of a healthy boy by caesarean section. Previously, a healthy girl had been delivered by caesarean section because of failure to progress in the second stage of labour in 1993. The patient's past medical history included four earlier miscarriages, a deep venous thrombosis, homozygosity for the factor V Leiden mutation, antinuclear antibodies, and a patent …

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