Idiopathic membranoproliferative glomerulonephritis treated with mycophenolate mofetil

“Idiopathic” membranoproliferative glomerulonephritis (MPGN) is rare compared to secondary forms and usually a progressive disease. Studies evaluating the role of steroids were primarily done in children, and the data are sparse in adults. Mycophenolate mofetil is effective and can be used as a ster...

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Autores principales: Koratala, Abhilash, Malpartida, Freddy R., Lee Loy, Justin, Zeng, Xu
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: John Wiley and Sons Inc. 2018
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Clinical Images
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6230615/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30455941
http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/ccr3.1826
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author Koratala, Abhilash
Malpartida, Freddy R.
Lee Loy, Justin
Zeng, Xu
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description “Idiopathic” membranoproliferative glomerulonephritis (MPGN) is rare compared to secondary forms and usually a progressive disease. Studies evaluating the role of steroids were primarily done in children, and the data are sparse in adults. Mycophenolate mofetil is effective and can be used as a steroid‐sparing agent in the treatment of idiopathicMPGN.
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spelling pubmed-62306152018-11-19 Idiopathic membranoproliferative glomerulonephritis treated with mycophenolate mofetil Koratala, Abhilash Malpartida, Freddy R. Lee Loy, Justin Zeng, Xu Clin Case Rep Clinical Images “Idiopathic” membranoproliferative glomerulonephritis (MPGN) is rare compared to secondary forms and usually a progressive disease. Studies evaluating the role of steroids were primarily done in children, and the data are sparse in adults. Mycophenolate mofetil is effective and can be used as a steroid‐sparing agent in the treatment of idiopathicMPGN. John Wiley and Sons Inc. 2018-09-23 /pmc/articles/PMC6230615/ /pubmed/30455941 http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/ccr3.1826 Text en © 2018 The Authors. Clinical Case Reports published by John Wiley & Sons Ltd. This is an open access article under the terms of the http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/ License, which permits use, distribution and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited and is not used for commercial purposes.
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Idiopathic membranoproliferative glomerulonephritis treated with mycophenolate mofetil
title Idiopathic membranoproliferative glomerulonephritis treated with mycophenolate mofetil
title_full Idiopathic membranoproliferative glomerulonephritis treated with mycophenolate mofetil
title_fullStr Idiopathic membranoproliferative glomerulonephritis treated with mycophenolate mofetil
title_full_unstemmed Idiopathic membranoproliferative glomerulonephritis treated with mycophenolate mofetil
title_short Idiopathic membranoproliferative glomerulonephritis treated with mycophenolate mofetil
title_sort idiopathic membranoproliferative glomerulonephritis treated with mycophenolate mofetil
topic Clinical Images
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6230615/
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http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/ccr3.1826
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