Strongyloides stercoralis −Associated Tip Variant Focal Segmental Glomerulosclerosis

Strongyloides stercoralis−Associated Tip Variant Focal Segmental Glomerulosclerosis

Massini Merzkani, Nupur N. Uppal, Daniel W. Ross, Pranisha Gautam-Goyal, Prashant Malhotra, Hitesh H. Shah, Kenar D. Jhaveri and Vivette D. D’Agati Division of Kidney Diseases and Hypertension, North Shore University Hospital and Long Island Jewish Medical Center, Hofstra Northwell School of Medicine, Great Neck, New York, USA; Division of Infectious Diseases, North Shore University Hospital an...

Focal segmental glomerulosclerosis; collapsing variant.

*Corresponding author: Dr. Peyman Mohammadi Torbati, Department of Pathology, Shahid Beheshti University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran. Telephone: 00982122567222, Fax: 00982122567282, E-mail:[email protected] 1. Case 32 years old male with history of hypertension since three years, and recent illdefined febrile illness was admitted. He has suffered of edema and fatigue. Laboratory exam...

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...