Clinicians should continue to monitor UACR or UPCR in at-risk children. During periods of rapid growth such as puberty, children with low GFR may show rapid decline in kidney function. Puberty is a ...

What is Guillain-Barré syndrome? Guillain-Barré syndrome (GBS) is also called acute inflammatory demyelinating polyradiculoneuropathy (AIDP). It's a neurological disorder in which the body's immune ...

The Naylor siblings were all born with myotonic dystrophy, a genetic disorder that causes muscles to waste away. It wasn’t until later that the family knew something was wrong, so they made ...

Borderline personality disorder (BPD) is a mental health condition that affects the way you feel about yourself and other people. The symptoms of BPD are severe enough to interfere with daily function ...

Genetic testing results confirmed the diagnosis of autosomal recessive Bartter syndrome type 4b, attributed to recessive digenic mutations in both CLCNKA and CLCNKB genes (1p36.13). On audiological ...

Chronic fatigue syndrome — also known as myalgic encephalomyelitis/chronic fatigue syndrome (ME/CFS) OR systemic exertional intolerance disease (SEID)— is a serious, chronic illness that can ...

Tiffany Page is living with Muckle-Wells syndrome, a rare genetic autoinflammatory disorder. According to the National Library of Medicine, it causes recurring episodes of fever, rash, joint pain ...

But for a small number of children, the infection triggers strange behavioral changes known as PANDAS syndrome. PANDAS stands for pediatric autoimmune neuropsychiatric disorders associated with ...

Introduction: Familial hypocalciuric hypercalcemia (FHH) is an autosomal dominant disorder caused by an inactivating mutation in the CASR gene, while Gitelman syndrome (GS) is an autosomal recessive ...