Can J Kidney Health Dis
October 2023
Rationale: Due to next-generation sequencing, variants in new genes such as are recently being identified as causing atypical autosomal dominant polycystic kidney disease (ADPKD). It is important to describe phenotypes associated with these variants in order to increase awareness among clinicians, especially since genetic variability affects ADPKD severity.
Presenting Concerns Of The Patient: We describe a 55-year-old female patient of Haitian origin who presented with slowly deteriorating kidney function, microscopic hematuria, proteinuria, enlarged kidneys with innumerable small cysts, and a family history of chronic kidney disease and cysts.
was recently identified as a new candidate ovarian cancer (OC)-predisposing gene from the genetic analysis of carriers of c.1813C>T; p.L605F in OC families.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFPurpose: RAS genes (HRAS, KRAS, and NRAS) are commonly found to be mutated in cancers, and activating RAS variants are also found in disorders of somatic mosaicism (DoSM). A survey of the mutational spectrum of RAS variants in DoSM has not been performed.
Methods: A total of 938 individuals with suspected DoSM underwent high-sensitivity clinical next-generation sequencing-based testing.
Amyloidosis concomitant to aortic stenosis usually occurs with myocardial infiltration by the transthyretin protein. To our knowledge, this is the first report of localized amyloidosis of indeterminate type in a severely calcified and functionally unicuspid aortic valve. Isolated dystrophic valvular amyloidosis is believed to be related to fibrocalcific valve disease.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFBackground: Adrenal tumors are found in up to 40% of patients with multiple endocrine neoplasia type 1 (MEN1). However, adrenocortical carcinomas (ACC) and primary aldosteronism (PA) are rare in MEN1.
Case: A 48-year-old woman known to have primary hyperparathyroidism and hypertension with hypokalemia was referred for a right complex 8-cm adrenal mass with a 38.