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renal hypomagnesemia 5 with ocular involvement

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A hypomagnesemia characterized by autosomal recessive inheritance of renal magnesium wasting with hypercalcinosis, progressive renal failure and severe ocular involvement that has_material_basis_in homozygous mutation in the CLDN19 gene on chromosome 1p34.2.

Signs and symptoms

  • Nephrocalcinosis
  • Renal magnesium wasting
  • Hypermagnesiuria
  • Hypercalciuria
  • Hypomagnesemia
  • Nystagmus
  • Myopia
  • Stage 5 chronic kidney disease
  • Recurrent urinary tract infections
  • Astigmatism

Also known as: FHHNC with severe ocular involvement; Meier-Blumberg-Imahorn syndrome; bilateral macular coloboma with hypercalciuria; familial hypomagnesemia with hypercalciuria, nephrocalcinosis and severe ocular involvement; hypercalciuria-bilateral macular coloboma syndrome