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SUBMITTER: Speer C
PROVIDER: S-EPMC6196619 | biostudies-other | 2018
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-other
Speer Claudius C Gaida Matthias Martin MM Waldherr Rüdiger R Nusshag Christian C Kälble Florian F Zeier Martin M
SAGE open medical case reports 20181019
Membranous nephropathy is a common cause of nephrotic syndrome in adults and can be primary or secondary through autoimmune disease, medication, infection, or malignancy. Rapidly progressive glomerulonephritis with crescent formation is rare in patients with membranous nephropathy. Thus, in cases with rapid decline in renal function, after excluding complications such as malignant hypertension, acute hypersensitivity interstitial nephritis, and bilateral renal vein thrombosis, the simultaneous o ...[more]