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Nephrol Dial Transplant (1999) 14: 2008-2010
© 1999 European Renal Association-European Dialysis and Transplant Association

Case Reports

Steroid-sensitive nephrotic syndrome, sarcoidosis and thyroiditis—a new syndrome?

Masateru Nishiki, Yoshio Murakami, Yuko Yamane and Yuzuru Kato

First Division, Department of Medicine, Shimane Medical University, Izumo, Japan

Correspondence and offprint requests to: Masateru Nishiki, MD, First Division, Department of Medicine, Shimane Medical University, 89-1 Enya-cho, Izumo 693-8501, Japan.

Keywords: chronic thyroiditis; IgA nephropathy; nephrotic syndrome; sarcoidosis



   Introduction
 
It has been reported that several immune complex diseases are often complicated by a steroid-sensitive nephrotic syndrome [1]. Sarcoidosis is a systemic disease characterized by non-caseating granulomas. Although immune complex production is known to be increased in this disease, the aetiology has not been elucidated fully. There has been only one suggestive case report on the association between a steroid-sensitive nephrotic syndrome and sarcoidosis as well as Graves' disease [2].

Here, we report a case of steroid-sensitive nephrotic syndrome in association with sarcoidosis still developed in a patient with known immunoglobulin A (IgA) nephropathy and chronic thyroiditis. . . . [Full Text of this Article]



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