Impaired Kidney Function With Kidney Tubular Vacuolization and Crystals in Adult Refsum Disease: A Case Report
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Abstract
Adult Refsum disease is a rare hereditary peroxisomal disorder characterized by impaired phytanic acid metabolism. The accumulation of phytanic acid in tissues, especially adipose and neural, is believed to contribute to disease manifestations. Clinically apparent kidney dysfunction has been reported in only 2 cases. We describe a 55-year-old woman with adult Refsum disease, who was referred to nephrology for impaired kidney function without proteinuria. Kidney biopsy showed vacuolization of proximal tubular epithelium and unremarkable glomeruli. Focally, distal tubular cytoplasm showed variably sized crystals with ultrastructural laminated substructures (or "paracrystalline formation"). To the best of our knowledge, the light microscopy for these crystals in a peroxisomal disease has not been previously described, and adult Refsum disease has not been described as a significant metabolic kidney disorder. These unique morphologic features contribute to the spectrum of findings in this rare genetic condition. This case also demonstrates the value of kidney function monitoring and therapeutic plasma exchange for these patients.
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Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. The Gemma side is a direct model label for every work in the frame, read from the title-only record. The Codex side is a classifier learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and calibrated to design-weighted sample rates; fields without enough sample support carry no Codex call. Candidate is the union of the two sides; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels.
Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.001 | 0.002 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.002 | 0.002 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.002 | 0.001 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.003 | 0.002 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.002 | 0.002 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.002 | 0.002 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.002 |
| Research integrity | 0.005 | 0.002 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.002 | 0.001 |
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Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
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