Friday, August 5, 2011

ASK Dr KK: What is TEMPI?

Dr KK Answers: TEMPI is a New Mysterious, Life-Threatening Blood Disease Affecting Kidneys.

Harvard doctors have identified 3 people with TEMPI, which worsens over time & causes painful fluid buildup around the kidneys, shortness of breath that can require oxygen, dilated blood vessels under the skin and spontaneous bleeding in the brain. (New England Journal of Medicine). It is not caused by cancer, infection, or by genetics. Has an abnormal antibody protein in blood.

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