Open AccessRENAL GLOMERULAR CHANGES ASSOCIATED WITH LIVER CIRRHOSIS
Author(s) -
Fukuda Yuh
Publication year - 1982
Publication title -
acta patholigica japonica
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.73
H-Index - 74
ISSN - 0001-6632
DOI - 10.1111/j.1440-1827.1982.tb02057.x
Subject(s) - cirrhosis , pathology , medicine , kidney glomerulus , kidney , glomerulonephritis
Renal glomerular changes associated with 79 liver cirrhosis cases were studied by light and electron microscopy, and immunofluorescent methods. The glomerular changes were classified as follows: 1) Mixed membranous and proliferative glomerulonephritis type having subepithelial, subendothelial, mesangial and paramesangial deposits (37 cases), 2) membranous glomerulonephropathy type (6 cases), 3) IgA nephropathy type (3 cases), and 4) glomerulosclerosis type (5 cases). Clinically, the patients with marked renal glomerular changes had proteinuria, hematuria, and retention by the PSP test. It was suggested that the essential renal glomerular changes in liver cirrhosis was immune‐complex mediated glomerulonephritis and that glomerular sclerosis was merely a secondary change to glomerulonephritis.