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Nephrol Dial Transplant (2002) 17: 523-524
© 2002 European Renal Association-European Dialysis and Transplant Association

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Pulmonary hydatid disease associated with nephrotic syndrome in a paediatric patient

Cansin Saçkesen, Halil Atasoy, Nural Kiper and Seza Ozen

Hacettepe University Medical Faculty Ihsan Dogramaci Children's Hospital Ankara, Turkey

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Renal diseases associated with infectious and parasitic diseases have been well documented [1,2]. The nephrotic syndrome of quartan malaria and glomerulonephritis associated with the hepatosplenic form of schistosomiasis are examples of such associations. Infectious agents may serve as triggers for immunological kidney diseases. In turn these antigen–antibody complexes may form depositions in the glomerular basement membrane [1]. Sanchez et al. [3] have described Echinococcus granulosus antigen in a renal biopsy performed on a 67-year-old woman suffering from nephrotic syndrome due to . . . [Full Text of this Article]

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