Hereditary nephritis (with unusual renal histology): report of a first case from the West Indies.
A 21-year-old Grenadian girl undergoing investigation in Trinidad for anaemia was diagnosed as a case of hereditary nephritis. She had the clinical features of a nephropathy, nerve deafness and an ocular defect. Renal histology was exceptional in that in addition to the typical findings of a hereditary nephritis, cystic areas generally associated with medullary cystic disease were noted. Several members of the patient's maternal family were afflicted with either deafness visual distrubances or renal disease.
D000328:Adult; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007668:Kidney / Q000473:pathology; D052177:Kidney Diseases, Cystic / Q000473:pathology; D009394:Nephritis, Hereditary / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000453:epidemiology / Q000473:pathology; D010375:Pedigree; D014900:West Indies