Focal Segmental Glomerulosclerosis Associated Seronegative Antiphospholipid Syndrome

Alendronate-associated focal segmental glomerulosclerosis

Alendronate-associated focal segmental glomerulosclerosis Sir, Alendronate sodium, a bisphosphonate and commonly used pharmacologic agent for postmenopausal osteoporosis, has been rarely linked to renal toxicity [1] but not in association with focal segmental glomerulosclerosis (FSGS). A 55-year-old Caucasian woman developed proteinuria and hypertension. Nine years earlier, she had been diagnos...

Kartagener syndrome with focal segmental glomerulosclerosis.

Primary ciliary dyskinesia is characterized by congenital impairment of mucociliary clearance. Kartagener syndrome (KS) is a clinical variant of primary ciliary dyskinesia which is involved in situs inversus associated with chronic respiratory infections. In addition, glomerular disease in KS syndrome is rare and reported cases are limited. We had a 27-year-old female patient with KS who presen...

Re: Kartagener syndrome with focal segmental glomerulosclerosis.

348 Iranian Journal of Kidney Diseases | Volume 8 | Number 4 | July 2014 stress, although there is no bacterial infection. In these situations, after the elevation of procalcitonin values, a rapid decline is observed in the follow-up measurements. 3 On the other hand, procalcitonin can have false negative or lower values in early course and localized site of an infection. 3 In this context, rep...

Ramsay Hunt syndrome in focal segmental glomerulosclerosis.

acial paralysis has been reported in the literature subsequent to multiple insults but its occurrence after herpes zoster infection is a drastic, disfiguring and painful event with poorer outcomes. Ramsay Hunt syndrome (RHS) is characterized by the presence of cochleovestibular symptoms in association with facial paralysis. Facial nerve palsy has long been considered to have mainly infectious e...

Focal segmental glomerulosclerosis associated with pulmonary sarcoidosis.