Focal segmental glomerulosclerosis associated with Good's syndrome

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...

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...

Focal segmental glomerulosclerosis associated with pulmonary sarcoidosis.

Focal segmental glomerulosclerosis associated with mitochondrial disease

Primary mitochondrial diseases (MD) are complex, heterogeneous inherited diseases caused by mutations in either the mitochondrial or nuclear DNA. Glomerular diseases in MD have been reported with tRNA mutation m.3243A>G causing a syndrome of mitochondrial encephalomyopathy, lactic acidosis and stroke-like episodes (MELAS). We describe here a case of focal segmental glomerulosclerosis (FSGS) ass...