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Daily Mirror
Daily Mirror
Lifestyle
Miriam Stoppard

'Discovery of new kidney and liver disease could save people from transplants'

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.

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