Monoclonal gammopathy presenting as recurrent nephrotic syndrome: Therapeutic implications

American Journal of the Medical Sciences

Volumn 333, Issue 5, 2007, Pages 313-316

  Krishnan, Srivilliputtur G Santhana ^a   Valderrama, Elsa ^a   Wagner, John D ^a   Mattana, Joseph ^a   Shah, Hitesh H ^a   Appel, Gerald ^b   Singhal, Pravin C ^a  

^a LONG ISLAND JEWISH MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b Department of Orthopaedic Surgery   (United States)

Author keywords

Monoclonal gammopathy; Nephrotic syndrome; Renal failure

Indexed keywords

CYCLOPHOSPHAMIDE; CYCLOSPORIN; DIPEPTIDYL CARBOXYPEPTIDASE INHIBITOR; DIURETIC AGENT; IMMUNOGLOBULIN HEAVY CHAIN; IMMUNOGLOBULIN KAPPA CHAIN; IMMUNOGLOBULIN LIGHT CHAIN; PREDNISONE;

ADULT; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; CLINICAL FEATURE; CORTICOSTEROID THERAPY; DRUG DOSE INCREASE; DRUG WITHDRAWAL; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HEAVY CHAIN DISEASE; HUMAN; IMMUNOSUPPRESSIVE TREATMENT; KIDNEY BIOPSY; MEMBRANOPROLIFERATIVE GLOMERULONEPHRITIS; MONOCLONAL IMMUNOGLOBULINEMIA; NEPHROTIC SYNDROME; RECURRENT DISEASE; RELAPSE; REMISSION; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

FEMALE; GLOMERULONEPHRITIS, MEMBRANOPROLIFERATIVE; HUMANS; IMMUNOGLOBULIN HEAVY CHAINS; IMMUNOGLOBULIN LIGHT CHAINS; KIDNEY FAILURE; MIDDLE AGED; NEPHROTIC SYNDROME; PARAPROTEINEMIAS;

EID: 34249087507     PISSN: 00029629     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/MAJ.0b013e318053ce83     Document Type: Article

References (8)

1. Striker LJM-M, Preud'homme J-L, D'Amico G, et al. Monoclonal gammopathies, mixed cryoglobulinemias and lymphomas, in Tisher CC, Brenner BM (eds): Renal pathology, 2nd edition. Philadelphia, PA, Lippincott, 1994; p 1442-90.
2. Karras A, Noel LH, Droz D, et al. Renal involvement in monoclonal cryoglobulinemia: two cases associated with IgG3 kappa cryoglobulin. Am J Kidney Dis 2002;40:1091-6.
3. Lin J, Markowitz GS, Valeri AM, et al. Renal monoclonal immunoglobulin deposition disease: the disease spectrum. J Am Soc Nephrol 2001;12:1482-92.
4. Rosenstock JL, Markowitz GS, Valeri AM, et al. Fibrillary and immunotactoid glomerulonephritis: distinct entities with different clinical and pathological features. Kidney Int 2003;63:1450-61.
5. Kambham N, Markowitz GS, Appel G, et al. Heavy chain deposition disease: the disease spectrum. Am J Kidney Dis 1999;33:954-62.
6. Pirani CL, Silva F, D'Agati V, et al. Renal lesions in plasma cell dyscrasias: ultrastructural observation. Am J kidney Dis 1987;10:208-21.
7. Buxbaum JN, Chuba JV, Hellman GC, et al. Monoclonal immunoglobulin deposition disease: light chain and light and heavy chain deposition diseases and their relation to light chain amyloidosis. Ann Intern Med 1990;112:455-64.
8. Nasr SH, Markowitz GS, Stokes MB, et al. Proliferative glomerulonephritis with monoclonal IgG deposits: a distinct entity mimicking immune-complex glomerulonephritis. Kidney Int 2004;65:85-96.