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Focal segmental glomerulosclerosis in a patient with Prader-Willi syndrome
H Mochizuki1, K Joh, N Matsuyama
1Department of Pediatrics, The Jikei University School of Medicine, Tokyo, Japan.
Clinical Nephrology
|April 5, 2000
Abstract:
The authors describe a girl with Prader-Willi syndrome associated with focal segmental glomerulosclerosis. Severe obesity and unilateral renal agenesis, taken together, may have played an important role in the development of her specific renal disease.