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Screening for Fabry disease among 619 hemodialysis patients in Saudi Arabia

Salwa A. Alhemyadi, Mamoun Elawad, Konstantinos Fourtounas, Zakaria Abdrabbou, Bellalah Alaraki, Siddeg Younis, Zahir Nawaz, Salem Alqurashi and Sarar Mohamed
Saudi Medical Journal August 2020, 41 (8) 813-818; DOI: https://doi.org/10.15537/smj.2020.8.25184
Salwa A. Alhemyadi
From the Department of Nephrology (Alhemyadi, Elawad, Alaraki, Younis, Nawaz, Alqurashi); from the Department of Pediatric (Mohamed), Division of Genetics and Metabolic Medicine, Prince Sultan Military Medical City, from Prince Abdullah bin Khaled Celiac Disease Research Chair (Mohamed), King Saud University, from the Department of Pediatrics (Mohamed), Alfaisal University, Riyadh, from the Department of Nephrology (Fourtounas), Military Hospital, Tabuk, and from the Department of Nephrology (Abdrabbou), King Fahad Hospital, Al Kharj, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia
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Mamoun Elawad
From the Department of Nephrology (Alhemyadi, Elawad, Alaraki, Younis, Nawaz, Alqurashi); from the Department of Pediatric (Mohamed), Division of Genetics and Metabolic Medicine, Prince Sultan Military Medical City, from Prince Abdullah bin Khaled Celiac Disease Research Chair (Mohamed), King Saud University, from the Department of Pediatrics (Mohamed), Alfaisal University, Riyadh, from the Department of Nephrology (Fourtounas), Military Hospital, Tabuk, and from the Department of Nephrology (Abdrabbou), King Fahad Hospital, Al Kharj, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia
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Konstantinos Fourtounas
From the Department of Nephrology (Alhemyadi, Elawad, Alaraki, Younis, Nawaz, Alqurashi); from the Department of Pediatric (Mohamed), Division of Genetics and Metabolic Medicine, Prince Sultan Military Medical City, from Prince Abdullah bin Khaled Celiac Disease Research Chair (Mohamed), King Saud University, from the Department of Pediatrics (Mohamed), Alfaisal University, Riyadh, from the Department of Nephrology (Fourtounas), Military Hospital, Tabuk, and from the Department of Nephrology (Abdrabbou), King Fahad Hospital, Al Kharj, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia
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Zakaria Abdrabbou
From the Department of Nephrology (Alhemyadi, Elawad, Alaraki, Younis, Nawaz, Alqurashi); from the Department of Pediatric (Mohamed), Division of Genetics and Metabolic Medicine, Prince Sultan Military Medical City, from Prince Abdullah bin Khaled Celiac Disease Research Chair (Mohamed), King Saud University, from the Department of Pediatrics (Mohamed), Alfaisal University, Riyadh, from the Department of Nephrology (Fourtounas), Military Hospital, Tabuk, and from the Department of Nephrology (Abdrabbou), King Fahad Hospital, Al Kharj, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia
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Bellalah Alaraki
From the Department of Nephrology (Alhemyadi, Elawad, Alaraki, Younis, Nawaz, Alqurashi); from the Department of Pediatric (Mohamed), Division of Genetics and Metabolic Medicine, Prince Sultan Military Medical City, from Prince Abdullah bin Khaled Celiac Disease Research Chair (Mohamed), King Saud University, from the Department of Pediatrics (Mohamed), Alfaisal University, Riyadh, from the Department of Nephrology (Fourtounas), Military Hospital, Tabuk, and from the Department of Nephrology (Abdrabbou), King Fahad Hospital, Al Kharj, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia
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Siddeg Younis
From the Department of Nephrology (Alhemyadi, Elawad, Alaraki, Younis, Nawaz, Alqurashi); from the Department of Pediatric (Mohamed), Division of Genetics and Metabolic Medicine, Prince Sultan Military Medical City, from Prince Abdullah bin Khaled Celiac Disease Research Chair (Mohamed), King Saud University, from the Department of Pediatrics (Mohamed), Alfaisal University, Riyadh, from the Department of Nephrology (Fourtounas), Military Hospital, Tabuk, and from the Department of Nephrology (Abdrabbou), King Fahad Hospital, Al Kharj, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia
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Zahir Nawaz
From the Department of Nephrology (Alhemyadi, Elawad, Alaraki, Younis, Nawaz, Alqurashi); from the Department of Pediatric (Mohamed), Division of Genetics and Metabolic Medicine, Prince Sultan Military Medical City, from Prince Abdullah bin Khaled Celiac Disease Research Chair (Mohamed), King Saud University, from the Department of Pediatrics (Mohamed), Alfaisal University, Riyadh, from the Department of Nephrology (Fourtounas), Military Hospital, Tabuk, and from the Department of Nephrology (Abdrabbou), King Fahad Hospital, Al Kharj, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia
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Salem Alqurashi
From the Department of Nephrology (Alhemyadi, Elawad, Alaraki, Younis, Nawaz, Alqurashi); from the Department of Pediatric (Mohamed), Division of Genetics and Metabolic Medicine, Prince Sultan Military Medical City, from Prince Abdullah bin Khaled Celiac Disease Research Chair (Mohamed), King Saud University, from the Department of Pediatrics (Mohamed), Alfaisal University, Riyadh, from the Department of Nephrology (Fourtounas), Military Hospital, Tabuk, and from the Department of Nephrology (Abdrabbou), King Fahad Hospital, Al Kharj, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia
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Sarar Mohamed
From the Department of Nephrology (Alhemyadi, Elawad, Alaraki, Younis, Nawaz, Alqurashi); from the Department of Pediatric (Mohamed), Division of Genetics and Metabolic Medicine, Prince Sultan Military Medical City, from Prince Abdullah bin Khaled Celiac Disease Research Chair (Mohamed), King Saud University, from the Department of Pediatrics (Mohamed), Alfaisal University, Riyadh, from the Department of Nephrology (Fourtounas), Military Hospital, Tabuk, and from the Department of Nephrology (Abdrabbou), King Fahad Hospital, Al Kharj, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia
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vol. 41 no. 8 813-818
DOI 
https://doi.org/10.15537/smj.2020.8.25184
PubMed 
32789421

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Saudi Medical Journal
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1658-3175
History 
  • Received April 6, 2020
  • Accepted June 24, 2020
  • Published online August 1, 2020.

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Copyright: © Saudi Medical Journal This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.0 Unported, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.

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  1. Salwa A. Alhemyadi, MD,
  2. Mamoun Elawad, MD, FRCP,
  3. Konstantinos Fourtounas, MD,
  4. Zakaria Abdrabbou, MD,
  5. Bellalah Alaraki, MRCP,
  6. Siddeg Younis, MRCP,
  7. Zahir Nawaz, MRCP,
  8. Salem Alqurashi, MD and
  9. Sarar Mohamed, FRCPCH, MD⇑
  1. From the Department of Nephrology (Alhemyadi, Elawad, Alaraki, Younis, Nawaz, Alqurashi); from the Department of Pediatric (Mohamed), Division of Genetics and Metabolic Medicine, Prince Sultan Military Medical City, from Prince Abdullah bin Khaled Celiac Disease Research Chair (Mohamed), King Saud University, from the Department of Pediatrics (Mohamed), Alfaisal University, Riyadh, from the Department of Nephrology (Fourtounas), Military Hospital, Tabuk, and from the Department of Nephrology (Abdrabbou), King Fahad Hospital, Al Kharj, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia
  1. Address correspondence and reprint request to: Prof. Sarar Mohamed, Department of Pediatrics, Prince Sultan Military Medical City, Riyadh, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. E-mail: srarmohamed{at}psmmc.med.sa ORCID ID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7393-5064
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Salwa A. Alhemyadi, Mamoun Elawad, Konstantinos Fourtounas, Zakaria Abdrabbou, Bellalah Alaraki, Siddeg Younis, Zahir Nawaz, Salem Alqurashi, Sarar Mohamed
Saudi Medical Journal Aug 2020, 41 (8) 813-818; DOI: 10.15537/smj.2020.8.25184
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