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  1. Pediatric Nephrology, Kidney Institute, Medanta, The Medicity, Gurgaon, Haryana, 122001, India

    Sidharth Kumar Sethi

  2. Department of Pathology, Medanta, The Medicity, Gurgaon, Haryana, India, 122001

    Shalini Goel

  3. Maulana Azad Medical College, New Delhi, 110002, India

    Ananya Vadhera, Hritik Raaj & Samit Kumar Mahato

  4. Kidney Institute, Medanta, The Medicity, Gurgaon, Haryana, India, 122001

    Pranaw Kumar Jha & Shyam Bihari Bansal

  5. Pediatric Nephrology, Akron Children’s Hospital, Akron, 44308-1062, OH, USA

    Rupesh Raina

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Sethi, S.K., Goel, S., Vadhera, A. et al. Familial kidney failure with macro-thrombocytopenia: Answers. Pediatr Nephrol 37, 1801–1803 (2022). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00467-022-05459-8

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