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- noun medicine A
hardening of theglomerulus in thekidney .
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End-stage renal (kidney) disease: Patients may develop renal failure, often in association with a condition known as focal segmental glomerulosclerosis.
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His disease, called focal glomerulosclerosis, attacks the small filters of the kidney that remove waste from the blood, causing proteins to spill into the urine and scar the organ.
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Mourning missed the first 69 games of the 2000-01 season after being diagnosed with focal glomerulosclerosis.
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Mourning created an endowment fund that will advance research of focal glomerulosclerosis, the kidney disorder from which he suffers.
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On October 15th of last year, Alonzo stood before you and announced that he had -- was suffering from a kidney disease called focal glomerulosclerosis.
CNN Transcript - Special Event: Alonzo Mourning to Return to Miami Heat - March 27, 2001 2001
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The diagnosis by pathology was something called focal glomerulosclerosis, and we informed Alonzo and his family of that.
CNN Transcript - Special Event: Kidney Disease Will Force Mourning to Miss Season - October 16, 2000 2000
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As reported online this month by the journal Science, collaborating research groups found that patients with focal segmental glomerulosclerosis (FSGS) and hypertension-attributed end-stage kidney disease (H-ESKD) harbored variants in the APOL1 gene that changed the ApoL1 protein sequence.
R&D Mag - News 2010
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Newswise - An in-depth study of a family with multiple generations affected by kidney disease has identified a previously unknown location for a gene abnormality causing focal segmental glomerulosclerosis (FSGS), according to a study appearing in an upcoming issue of the
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An in-depth study of a family with multiple generations affected by kidney disease has identified a previously unknown location for a gene abnormality causing focal segmental glomerulosclerosis (FSGS), according to a study appearing in an upcoming issue of the Journal of the American Society of Nephrology (JASN).
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As reported online this month by the journal Science, collaborating research groups found that patients with focal segmental glomerulosclerosis (FSGS) and hypertension-attributed end-stage kidney disease (H-ESKD) harbored variants in the APOL1 gene that changed the ApoL1 protein sequence.
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