Affiliation:
1. Tepecik Education and Research Hospital, Internal Medicine Clinic, Izmir , Turkey
Abstract
Abstract
Bardet Biedl syndrome (BBS) is characterized by obesity, retinitis pigmentosa, hypogonadism, mental retardation and polydactyly. Additionally, renal, cardiac and neurological manifestations may be seen. We report a case of BBS with chronic kidney disease (CKD) at the age of 43.
Subject
Transplantation,Nephrology
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