Minimal change disease in graft versus host disease: a podocyte response to the graft?
Minimal change disease in graft versus host disease: a podocyte response to the graft?
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DOI:
10.5414/cn107420
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发表时间:
2013-12-01
影响因子:
1.1
通讯作者:
Johnson, Richard J.
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作者:
Huskey, Janna;Rivard, Chris;Johnson, Richard J.
Nephrotic syndrome is a rare complication of hematopoietic cell transplantation. It has been suggested that nephrotic syndrome may represent a limited form of graft-versus-host disease although the pathological link between these two entities remains unclear. In this paper, we report a case of a 61-year-old female who underwent nonmyeloablative allogenic stem cell transplantation for T-cell prolymphocytic leukemia and subsequently developed biopsy proven minimal change disease shortly after cessation of her immunosuppression therapy. Urinary CD80 was markedly elevated during active disease and disappeared following corticosteroid-induced remission. We hypothesize that alloreactive donor T cells target the kidney and induce podocyte expression of CD80 that results in proteinuria from limited 'graft versus host' disease.