Sergio Camilo Lopez-Garcia, Francesco Emma, Stephen B Walsh, Marc Fila, Nakysa Hooman, Marcin Zaniew, Aurélia Bertholet-Thomas, Giacomo Colussi, Kathrin Burgmaier, Elena Levtchenko, Jyoti Sharma, Jyoti Singhal, Neveen A Soliman, Gema Ariceta, Biswanath Basu, Luisa Murer, Velibor Tasic, Alexey Tsygin, Stéphane Decramer, Helena Gil-Peña, Linda Koster-Kamphuis, Claudio La Scola, Jutta Gellermann, Martin Konrad, Marc Lilien, Telma Francisco, Despoina Tramma, Peter Trnka, Selçuk Yüksel, Maria Rosa Caruso, Milan Chromek, Zelal Ekinci, Giovanni Gambaro, Jameela A Kari, Jens König, Francesca Taroni, Julia Thumfart, Francesco Trepiccione, Louise Winding, Elke Wühl, Ayşe Ağbaş, Anna Belkevich, Rosa Vargas-Poussou, Anne Blanchard, Giovanni Conti, Olivia Boyer, Ismail Dursun, Ayşe Seda Pınarbaşı, Engin Melek, Marius Miglinas, Robert Novo, Andrew Mallett, Danko Milosevic, Maria Szczepanska, Sarah Wente, Hae Il Cheong, Rajiv Sinha, Zoran Gucev, Stephanie Dufek, Daniela Iancu, Robert Kleta, Franz Schaefer, Detlef Bockenhauer
BACKGROUND: Primary distal renal tubular acidosis (dRTA) is a rare disorder, and we aimed to gather data on treatment and long-term outcome. METHODS: We contacted paediatric and adult nephrologists through European professional organizations. Responding clinicians entered demographic, biochemical, genetic and clinical data in an online form. RESULTS: Adequate data were collected on 340 patients (29 countries, female 52%). Mutation testing had been performed on 206 patients (61%); pathogenic mutations were identified in 170 patients (83%)...
June 1, 2019: Nephrology, Dialysis, Transplantation