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familial juvenile hyperuricemic nephropathy (HNFJ)
Pathology:
- interstitial pathology resulting in fibrosis
- cystic changes absent or infrequent
Genetics:
- autosomal dominant
- associated with defects in UMOD (type 1) [1]
- associated with defects in renin (type 2) [2]
Clinical manifestations:
- juvenile onset
- hyperuricemia & gout
- polyuria
- progressive renal failure
Laboratory:
- serum uric acid: hyperuricemia
- complete blood count: anemia (type 2)
Differential diagnosis:
- considered allelic variant of medullary cystic disease 2
- glomerulocystic kidney disease
General
genetic disease of the kidney
Database Correlations
OMIM correlations
References
- OMIM :accession 162000
- OMIM :accession 613092