Rapidly progressive glomerulonephritis complicating primary AL amyloidosis and multiple myeloma
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Rapidly progressive glomerulonephritis complicating primary AL amyloidosis and multiple myeloma.
Crescentic glomerulonephritis is a rare complication of AA amyloidosis. There are no clinical case reports of this complicating AL amyloidosis. A 67-year-old man developed rapidly progressive glomerulonephritis (RPGN) on a background of primary AL amyloidosis and IgGkappa multiple myeloma. Investigations for causes of glomerulonephritis were negative, and a renal biopsy confirmed crescentic glo...
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عنوان ژورنال: Nephrology Dialysis Transplantation
سال: 2009
ISSN: 0931-0509,1460-2385
DOI: 10.1093/ndt/gfp715