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Diabetes-like renal glomerular disease in Fanconi-Bickel syndrome

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The Fanconi-Bickel syndrome is a rare inherited disorder of metabolism characterized by hepatic glyconeogenesis, galactose intolerance, renal Fanconi syndrome with nephromegaly, and glycogen accumulation in proximal renal tubular cells. An 8-year-old patient with this disease and severe rickets due to medically resistant hypophosphatemia was found to have the previously unrecognized complication of renal glomerular hyperfiltration, microalbuminuria, and diffuse glomerular mesangial expansion. Similar to patients with glucose-6-phosphatase deficiency, the glomerular disease in this patient resembles incipient diabetic nephropathy. The Fanconi syndrome may be due to the defective transport of glucose at the proximal tubular basolateral membrane, which results in accumulation of glucose and secondarily glycogen within tubular cells. Since the metabolic defect, as evidenced by glycogen accumulation, selectively involves proximal renal tubular cells in the kidney of patients with Fanconi-Bickel syndrome and glucose-6-phosphatase deficiency, the abnormalities in renal glomerular hemodynamics and mesangial construct in these rare diseases are likely due to renal tubular factors, if the mechanism originates in the kidney. A delineation of these phenomena may further our understanding of the pathogenesis of diabetic nephropathy.

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  1. Divisions of Biochemical Developmental and Molecular Diseases, The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA

    Gerard T. Berry

  2. Endocrinology and Diabetes, and Departments of Pediatrics, The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA

    Lester Baker

  3. Department of Pathology, The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA

    Camillus L. Witzleben

  4. Department of Orthopedic Surgery, Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania, University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA

    Frederick S. Kaplan

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Berry, G.T., Baker, L., Kaplan, F.S. et al. Diabetes-like renal glomerular disease in Fanconi-Bickel syndrome. Pediatr Nephrol 9, 287–291 (1995). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02254185

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