TY - JOUR
T1 - Fibrillary glomerulonephritis in a patient with familial sensorineural deafness
AU - Ichikawa, Haruo
AU - Ikeda, Shuji
AU - Hashimoto, Masami
AU - Nagake, Yoshio
AU - Hironaka, Kazue
AU - Shikata, Kenichi
AU - Makino, Hirofumi
PY - 1997/1/1
Y1 - 1997/1/1
N2 - A 47-year-old woman was admitted to the hospital for evaluation of proteinuria. Bilateral sensorineural deafness had been diagnosed previously at age 35. She had a positive family history of deafness going back three generations. A renal biopsy showed the presence of highly organized fibrillary deposits in the subendothelial mesangial areas. The microfibrils had a diameter of 11-16 nm, larger than the diameter of amyloid fibrils, and did not have a microtubular appearance. The renal specimen was negative for Congo-red staining. There was no clinical or serologic evidence of paraproteinaemia, cryoglobulinaemia, light-chain disease, or systemic lupus erythematosus. The diagnosis was fibrillary glomerulonephritis. This is the first known case of fibrillary glomerulonephritis in a patient with familial sensorineural deafness.
AB - A 47-year-old woman was admitted to the hospital for evaluation of proteinuria. Bilateral sensorineural deafness had been diagnosed previously at age 35. She had a positive family history of deafness going back three generations. A renal biopsy showed the presence of highly organized fibrillary deposits in the subendothelial mesangial areas. The microfibrils had a diameter of 11-16 nm, larger than the diameter of amyloid fibrils, and did not have a microtubular appearance. The renal specimen was negative for Congo-red staining. There was no clinical or serologic evidence of paraproteinaemia, cryoglobulinaemia, light-chain disease, or systemic lupus erythematosus. The diagnosis was fibrillary glomerulonephritis. This is the first known case of fibrillary glomerulonephritis in a patient with familial sensorineural deafness.
KW - Electron microscopy
KW - Familial sensorineural deafness
KW - Fibrillary glomerulonephritis
KW - Renal biopsy
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U2 - 10.1111/j.1440-1797.1997.tb00259.x
DO - 10.1111/j.1440-1797.1997.tb00259.x
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:0030825168
SN - 1320-5358
VL - 3
SP - 381
EP - 384
JO - Nephrology
JF - Nephrology
IS - 5
ER -