Serious Symptoms Of Diamond-Blackfan Anemia

Kidney Problems

The most prevalent kidney problems seen in individuals affected by Diamond-Blackfan syndrome are absent kidney, hypospadias, and horseshoe kidney. Absent kidney, solitary kidney, renal agenesis, and renal dysplasia are terms used to describe when an individual only has one kidney as a result of a birth defect or having had it removed due to an accident or disease. Certain genetic mutations that occur with the mutation that causes Diamond-Blackfan anemia can cause an individual to be born without one of their kidneys. Hypospadias is a condition of the urinary tract where a male is born with the urinary opening in the wrong location on the penis. Horseshoe kidney is a congenital abnormality where an individual is born with two kidneys that fused during fetal development and formed a single U shaped kidney, which resembles a horseshoe.

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