Taber's Medical Dictionary
Alport syndrome
(al′port″)
[Arthur Cecil Alport, South African physician, 1880-1959]
Congenital glomerulonephritis associated with deafness and a decrease in large thrombocytes. Occasionally there are eye abnormalities such as cataracts. Although there is no specific treatment for this condition, dialysis or kidney transplantation is used to treat affected patients with kidney failure.
SYN: SEE: hereditary nephritis
SEE: macrothrombocyte
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Venes, Donald, editor. "Alport Syndrome." Taber's Medical Dictionary, 24th ed., F.A. Davis Company, 2021. Taber's Online, www.tabers.com/tabersonline/view/Tabers-Dictionary/765797/all/Alport_syndrome.
Alport syndrome. In: Venes DD, ed. Taber's Medical Dictionary. F.A. Davis Company; 2021. https://www.tabers.com/tabersonline/view/Tabers-Dictionary/765797/all/Alport_syndrome. Accessed November 28, 2021.
Alport syndrome. (2021). In Venes, D. (Ed.), Taber's Medical Dictionary (24th edition). F.A. Davis Company. https://www.tabers.com/tabersonline/view/Tabers-Dictionary/765797/all/Alport_syndrome
Alport Syndrome [Internet]. In: Venes DD, editors. Taber's Medical Dictionary. F.A. Davis Company; 2021. [cited 2021 November 28]. Available from: https://www.tabers.com/tabersonline/view/Tabers-Dictionary/765797/all/Alport_syndrome.
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