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, 23rd ed., F.A. Davis Company, 2017. Taber's Online, www.tabers.com/tabersonline/view/Tabers-Dictionary/765797/all/Alport_syndrome.
Alport syndrome. In: Venes D, ed. Taber's Medical Dictionary. F.A. Davis Company; 2017. https://www.tabers.com/tabersonline/view/Tabers-Dictionary/765797/all/Alport_syndrome. Accessed September 25, 2020.
Alport syndrome. (2017). In Venes, D. (Ed.), Taber's Medical Dictionary (23rd edition). F.A. Davis Company. Retrieved September 25, 2020, from https://www.tabers.com/tabersonline/view/Tabers-Dictionary/765797/all/Alport_syndrome
Alport Syndrome [Internet]. In: Venes D, editors. Taber's Medical Dictionary. F.A. Davis Company; 2017. [cited 2020 September 25]. Available from: https://www.tabers.com/tabersonline/view/Tabers-Dictionary/765797/all/Alport_syndrome.
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