Successful treatment of massive proteinuria and severe chyluria by inhibition of cholesterol absorption with ezetimibe in a patient with filariasis

We describe a case of filariasis presenting with severe chyluria and nephrotic-range proteinuria. There were no obvious findings of glomerulonephritis in the renal biopsy. Technetium-99m-human serum albumin (Tc-99m-HSA) lymphoscintigraphy revealed the presence of communications between lymphatic cha...

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Autores principales: Tanaka, Shigeru, Tsuruya, Kazuhiko, Tsuchimoto, Akihiro, Eriguchi, Masahiro, Kitazono, Takanari
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Oxford University Press 2012
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Clinical Cases
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4432420/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26019826
http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/ckj/sfs110

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https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4432420/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26019826
http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/ckj/sfs110

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