Minimal Change Disease Associated with Ingestion of Poison Sumac

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A unique form of polycythemia associated with minimal change disease.

OBJECTIVE To present a case with nephrotic syndrome due to minimal change disease and polycythemia. CLINICAL PRESENTATION AND INTERVENTION A 20-year-old female was admitted to our clinic for edema and severe proteinuria present with minimal change disease since the age of 7 years. Polycythemia was found during the last activation of nephrotic syndrome. The patient was placed on glucocorticoid...

Primary biliary cirrhosis associated with minimal change disease.

infection and the development of MPO-ANCA-associated GN, we compared the titres of C. pneumoniae abs in the active and remission phase of the disease in the same patients. The titres of anti-C. pneumoniae IgM and IgA, but not IgG abs in ANCA (remission) group significantly decreased compared with that in ANCA (active) [IgM ab: 1.22 0.47 vs 1.05 0.49U, P< 0.05; IgA ab: 1.70 1.20 vs 1.29 0.88 U, ...

Minimal-change nephrotic syndrome associated with mixed connective-tissue disease.

Sir, Mixed connective-tissue disease (MCTD) is a rheumato-logical disorder which has combined features of systemic lupus erythematosus, systemic sclerosis (SSc), polymyositisu dermatomyositis, and rheumatoid arthritis (RA) with anti-bodies to U 1 small nuclear ribonucleoprotein (U 1 snRNP). Although renal involvement was considered to be rare in the initial description w1x, several studies demo...

Minimal Change Disease.

Minimal change disease (MCD) is a major cause of idiopathic nephrotic syndrome (NS), characterized by intense proteinuria leading to edema and intravascular volume depletion. In adults, it accounts for approximately 15% of patients with idiopathic NS, reaching a much higher percentage at younger ages, up to 70%-90% in children >1 year of age. In the pediatric setting, a renal biopsy is usually ...