NDT Plus Advance Access originally published online on January 17, 2008
NDT Plus 2008 1(3):187; doi:10.1093/ndtplus/sfm019
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Intramembranous electron-dense deposits in a nephrotic patient with mixed connective tissue disease: unusual response to corticosteroid therapy
1 Department of Nephrology, Mito Saiseikai General Hospital, Mito
2 Department of Nephrology, Institute of Clinical Medicine, Graduate School of Comprehensive Human Sciences, University of Tsukuba, Tsukuba
3 Department of Nephrology, Tokyo Medical University Kasumigaura Hospital, Ami, Ibaraki, Japan
Correspondence: Itaru Ebihara, Department of Nephrology, Mito Saiseikai General Hospital, 3-3-10 Futabadai, Mito, Ibaraki, 311-4198 Japan; E-mail: itaruebi@yahoo.co.jp
Received for publication October 27, 2007. Accepted for publication November 7, 2007.
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A 56-year-old female patient, who had had minor change nephrotic syndrome (MCNS), was referred to us because of a fever and a massive proteinuria. Six years before, she had first
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