Fabry's disease. Report of the case diagnosed on the basis of routine ultrastructural examination of the renal biopsy.
A 45-year-old man who developed proteinuria was diagnosed as having Fabry's disease on the basis of renal histological findings and prominent decreases in alpha-galactosidase A activity in blood leukocytes.
Chair and Department of Pathomorphology, Collegium Medicum, Jagiellonian University, Kraków.
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Dubiel-Bigaj
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D001485:Basement Membrane / Q000648:ultrastructure; D001706:Biopsy; D003593:Cytoplasm / Q000648:ultrastructure; D003955:Diagnostic Tests, Routine; D000795:Fabry Disease / Q000473:pathology*; D005920:Glomerular Mesangium / Q000648:ultrastructure; D006801:Humans; D007668:Kidney / Q000648:ultrastructure*; D007684:Kidney Tubules / Q000648:ultrastructure; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged