Kidney Research and Clinical Practice (Sep 2013)

Membranous glomerulonephritis in a patient with myelodysplastic syndrome-refractory cytopenia with multilineage dysplasia

  • Kwang Il Ko,
  • Mi Jung Lee,
  • Fa Mee Doh,
  • Hyang Mo Koo,
  • Chan Ho Kim,
  • Dong Ho Shin,
  • Hyung Jung Oh,
  • Seung Hyeok Han,
  • Shin-Wook Kang,
  • Kyu Hun Choi,
  • Tae-Hyun Yoo

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.krcp.2013.06.001
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 32, no. 3
pp. 134 – 137

Abstract

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A 74-year-old woman presented with edema in the lower extremities. Laboratory tests revealed anemia, thrombocytopenia, hypoalbuminemia, hypercholesterolemia, and nephrotic-range proteinuria. Myelodysplastic syndrome-refractory cytopenia with multilineage dysplasia (MDS-RCMD) was confirmed by bone marrow biopsy. Renal biopsy demonstrated membranous glomerulonephritis (MGN), stage I. Based on these clinicopathologic results, she was diagnosed as having MGN with MDS-RCMD. This is a rare case report of MGN in a parient with MDS-RCMD featuring nephrotic syndrome.

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