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Tubulopathy


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Tubulopathy is a disease affecting the renal tubules of the nephron.

Tubulopathic processes may be inflammatory or noninflammatory, though inflammatory processes are often referred to specifically as tubulitis.

Disorder [OMIM number]Protein defectChromosome localizationInheritanceClinical features/notesBiochemical features
**Proximal tubule**
Lowe's syndrome (oculocerebral dystrophy [309000]OCRL1Xq26.1XRHydrophthalmia, cataract, mental retardation, hyporeflexia, hypotonia and progressive kidney failure, normotensivePlasma: ↓K, ↓CO2; urine: ↑LMWP, ↑AA, ↑PO4, ↑K
Wilson's disease [277900]ATP7B13q14.3-q21.1ARLiver disease or neurologic symptoms, or both, Kayser–Fleischer rings, normotensivePlasma: ↑free copper, abnormal LFTs; urine: ↑copper excretion, ↑LMWP, ↑AA, ↑PO4, ↑glycosuria
Dent's disease (X-linked recessive hypophophatemic rickets)[300009]CLCN5Xp11.22XRNephrocalcinosis, nephrolithiasis, rachitic and osteomalacic bone disease, progressive kidney failure, normotensivePlasma: ↓PO4, N/↓K; urine: ↑LMWP, ↑AA, ↑K, ↑Ca, ↑PO4, ↑glycosuria
X-linked dominant hypophosphatemic rickets 307800PHEXXp22.2-p22.1XDGrowth retardation, [rachitic and osteomalacic bone disease, hypophosphatemia, and renal defects in phosphate reabsorption and vitamin D metabolismPlasma: ↓PO4, ↑ALP; urine: ↑PO4
**Loop of Henle**
Bartter's syndromeNKCC2 (type 1)15q15-21.1ARPolyuria, polydipsia, muscle weakness, hypovolemia, normotensive or hypotensive (all types). Maternal polyhydramnios, premature birth, perinatal salt wasting, nephrocalcinosis and kidney stones (type 1 and 2), milder phenotype with normocalciuria(type 3), sensorineural deafness, motor retardation, renal failure (type 4)Plasma: ↑renin, ↓K, ↑CO2, mild ↓Mg in some patients; urine: ↑Ca
[601678]ROMK (type 2)11q24AR
[241200]C1C-Kb (type 3, classic)1p36AR
[607364]1p31AR
[602522]Barttin (type 4)
Hypomagnesemic hypercalciuric nephrocalcinosis (magnesium-losing kidney) [248250]PCLN13q27ARNephrocalcinosis, renal failure, ocular/hearing defects, polyruria, polydipsia, recurrent urinary tract infections, recurrent renal colic, normotensivePlasma: ↓Mg, ↑PTH; urine: ↑Ca, ↑Mg
**Distal tubule/collecting duct**
Liddle's syndrome [177200]ENaC (activating)16p13-p12ADEarly, and frequently severe, hypertension, strokePlasma: ↓renin, ↓K, ↓Mg, ↑CO2; urine: ↑K
Pseudohypoaldosteronism type 1a [264350]ENaC (inactivating)12p13, 16p13-p12ARPresents in infancy with salt-wasting and hypotension, cough, respiratory infectionsPlasma: ↑renin, ↓Na, ↑K, ↓CO2; urine: ↑K
Pseudohypoaldosteronism type 1b [177735]Mineralocorticoid receptor4q31.1ADPresents in infancy with salt-wasting and hypotension. Milder than type 1a and remits with agePlasma: ↑renin, ↓Na, ↑K, ↓CO2; urine: ↑K
Pseudohypoaldosteronism type 2 (Gordon's syndrome) [145260]Unknown (?WNK)1q31-q42, 12p13, 17q21-q22ADHypertension (± muscle weakness, short stature, intellectual impairment). Correction of physiologic abnormalities by thiazide diureticsPlasma: ↓renin, ↑K, ↓CO2, ↑Cl; urine: ↓K
Gitelman's syndrome [263800]NCCT16q13ARHypotension, weakness, paresthesias, tetany, fatigue, and salt craving, presentation generally much later in life than in Bartter's and hypocalciuria is typicalPlasma: ↑renin, ↓K, ↓Mg, ↑CO2; urine: ↓calcium:creatinine excretion ratio (useful in distinguishing Gitelman's and Bartter's) (*Note*: biochemically can mimic thiazide use)
X-linked nephrogenic diabetes insipidus type 1 [304800]V2 receptorXq28XRHyperthermia, polyuria, polydipsia, dehydration, inability to form concentrated urine, intellectual disability if diagnosis delayed. Symptoms in infancyHyperosmolar plasma, dilute urine
Autosomal dominant nephrogenic diabetes insipidus type 2 [192340]AQP212q13AD and ARPolyuria, polydipsia, dehydration, inability to form concentrated urine. Symptoms after first year of lifeHyperosmolar plasma, dilute urine

AA: aminoaciduria; AD: autosomal dominant; AR: autosomal recessive; LFTs: liver function tests; LMWP: low molecular weight proteinuria; XD: X-linked dominant; XR: X-linked recessive; PTH: parathyroid hormone

References

References

  1. {{DorlandsDict. nine/10066142. tubulopathy
  2. (2003). "Amoxicillin-induced nephritis and tubulitis in a child". Urologia Internationalis.
  3. (January 2001). "Tubulitis after renal transplantation: demonstration of an association between CD103+ T cells, transforming growth factor beta1 expression and rejection grade". Transplantation.
  4. "Tietz Textbook of Clinical Chemistry and Molecular Diagnostics". Elsevier Saunders.
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