Cystinosis in Orenburg, Russia (1)

Although cystinosis is affecting 1 of 200.000 newborns in Europe and the United States, as far as we know until 2007 no patients with cystinosis were known in Russia. Therefore cystinosis was considered to be a not-Russian disease. The first Russian case of cystinosis was diagnosed by a paediatrician Mikhail Kagan in Orenburg, a large industrial city on South Ural, on the border between European and Asian parts of Russia. The same year two more patients were diagnosed. M. Kagan, together with a Moscow professor of paediatric nephrology Alexey Tsygin wrote a paper in the Russian Medical Newspaper

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