There are numerous reasons for kidney and liver failure, which if left untreated are life-threatening. And often patients don’t get a precise diagnosis, which can result in their best course of treatment being unclear.
But experts at Newcastle University have now identified a new disease in a ground-breaking discovery that could help patients with unexplained liver and kidney problems.
They’ve established the inherited condition TULP3-related ciliopathy (TRC), which causes kidney and liver failure in children and adults.