Medicine:Abderhalden–Kaufmann–Lignac syndrome

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Abderhalden–Kaufmann–Lignac syndrome
Other namesAbderhalden–Lignac–Kaufmann disease[1]
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Abderhalden–Kaufmann–Lignac syndrome has an autosomal recessive pattern of inheritance.

Abderhalden–Kaufmann–Lignac syndrome (AKL syndrome), also called nephropathic cystinosis, is an autosomal recessive renal disorder of childhood comprising cystinosis and renal rickets.

Presentation

Affected children are developmentally delayed with dwarfism, rickets and osteoporosis. Renal tubular disease is usually present causing aminoaciduria, glycosuria and hypokalemia.

Cysteine deposition is most evident in the conjunctiva and cornea.

Diagnosis

Eponym

It is named for Emil Abderhalden, Eduard Kaufmann and George Lignac.[2][3]

See also

  • Cystinosin

References

  1. "Abderhalden Kaufmann Lignac syndrome" (in en). https://rarediseases.info.nih.gov/diseases/10074/abderhalden-kaufmann-lignac-syndrome. Retrieved 15 May 2018. 
  2. B.G. Firkin & J.A.Whitworth (1987). Dictionary of Medical Eponyms. Parthenon Publishing. ISBN:1-85070-333-7
  3. Who Named It?

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