Marked reduction of proteinuria after eradication of gastric Helicobacter pylori infection in a patient with membranous nephropathy: Coincidental or associated?

Internal Medicine

Volumn 46, Issue 17, 2007, Pages 1483-1484

  Sugimoto, Toshiro ^a   Furukawa, Takami ^b   Maeda, Tomohiko ^c   Somura, Mariko ^a   Uzu, Takashi ^a   Kashiwagi, Atsunori ^a  

^a SHIGA UNIVERSITY OF MEDICAL SCIENCE   (Japan)

^b KUSATSU GENERAL HOSPITAL   (Japan)

^c YAMAGATA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Helicobacter pylori; Membranous nephropathy

Indexed keywords

AMOXICILLIN; BACTERIUM ANTIBODY; CLARITHROMYCIN; COMPLEMENT COMPONENT C3; HEMOGLOBIN; IMMUNOGLOBULIN G; LANSOPRAZOLE;

ADULT; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DYSPEPSIA; ERADICATION THERAPY; FEMALE; GASTROINTESTINAL INFECTION; GASTROSCOPY; HELICOBACTER INFECTION; HELICOBACTER PYLORI; HEMATURIA; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; HYPOALBUMINEMIA; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; IRON DEFICIENCY ANEMIA; KIDNEY BIOPSY; MEMBRANOUS GLOMERULONEPHRITIS; MICROCYTIC ANEMIA; OCCULT BLOOD TEST; PROTEINURIA; STOMACH BIOPSY; URINARY TRACT DISEASE; NEPHROTIC SYNDROME; STOMACH DISEASE;

ADULT; FEMALE; GLOMERULONEPHRITIS, MEMBRANOUS; HELICOBACTER INFECTIONS; HELICOBACTER PYLORI; HUMANS; NEPHROTIC SYNDROME; PROTEINURIA; STOMACH DISEASES;

EID: 34548800351     PISSN: 09182918     EISSN: 13497235     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2169/internalmedicine.46.0200     Document Type: Article

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