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Pulmonary alveolar microlithiasis: A rare disease treated with lung transplantation, first case from India

Pulmonary alveolar microlithiasis (PAM) is a rare autosomal recessive condition characterized by widespread alveolar deposition of calcium microliths. A mutation in the SLC34A2 gene in the alveolar Type II pneumocytes is responsible for decreased phosphate clearance and accumulation of calcium as sp...

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Autores principales: Jindal, Apar, Rahulan, Vijil, Balasubramani, Govini, Dutta, Prabhat, Attawar, Sandeep
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Wolters Kluwer - Medknow 2019
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6852219/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31670305
http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/lungindia.lungindia_50_19