KI Final Meeting Report Online Oxfordjuly 2014
http://www.kidney-international.org meeting report & 2014 International Society of Nephrology The 2014 International Workshop on Alport Syndrome Jeffrey H. Miner1, Colin Baigent2, Frances Flinter3, Oliver Gross4, Parminder Judge2, Clifford E. Kashtan5, Sharon Lagas6, Judith Savige7, Dave Blatt8, Jie Ding9, Daniel P. Gale10, Julian P. Midgley11, Sue Povey12, Marco Prunotto13, Daniel Renault14, Jules Skelding15, A. Neil Turner16 and Susie Gear15 1Renal Division, Washington University School of Medicine, St Louis, Missouri, USA; 2Clinical Trial Service Unit and Epidemiological Studies Unit, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK; 3Department of Clinical Genetics, Guy’s and St Thomas’ NHS Foundation Trust, London, UK; 4Clinic of Nephrology and Rheumatology, University Medicine Goettingen, Goettingen, Germany; 5Department of Pediatrics, University of Minnesota Medical School, Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA; 6Alport Syndrome Foundation, Phoenix, Arizona, USA; 7Melbourne Health, The University of Melbourne, Parkville, Victoria, Australia; 8Alport Foundation of Australia, Valentine, New South Wales, Australia; 9Pediatric Department, Peking University First Hospital, Beijing, China; 10University College London-Center for Nephrology, London, UK; 11Department of Pediatrics, Alberta Children’s Hospital, Calgary, Alberta, Canada; 12Department of Genetics, Evolution and Environment, University College London, London, UK; 13Discovery Technology Department, Pharma Research and Early Development, Basel, Switzerland; 14Association for Information and Research on Genetic Renal Diseases (AIRG)-France, Paris, France; 15Alport UK, Tetbury, UK and 16Renal Medicine, Royal Infirmary, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, UK Alport syndrome, historically referred to as hereditary Kidney International advance online publication, 2 July 2014; glomerulonephritis with sensorineural deafness and anterior doi:10.1038/ki.2014.229 lenticonus, is a genetic disease of collagen a3a4a5(IV) KEYWORDS: ACE inhibitors; Alport syndrome; glomerulus; proteinuria resulting in renal failure.
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