Open AccessKaposi's sarcoma in patients with membranous nephropathy
Author(s) -
Weihua Liu,
Fei-Yue Lin,
Xin Chen,
Wei Li-xin,
Jiabin Wu
Publication year - 2018
Publication title -
saudi journal of kidney diseases and transplantation/našrat amraḍ wa zira'aẗ al-kulaẗ
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.268
H-Index - 30
eISSN - 2320-3838
pISSN - 1319-2442
DOI - 10.4103/1319-2442.229298
Subject(s) - medicine , membranous nephropathy , prednisolone , glomerulonephritis , sarcoma , immunology , dermatology , pathology , kidney
Although the relationship between Kaposi's sarcoma (KS) and renal transplant has been well described, there are rare cases of KS concurrent with membranous glomerulonephritis or other glomerular diseases. In this report, a patient with membranous glomerulonephritis that accepted long-term prednisolone and cyclosporine immunosuppressive therapy developed skin KS. Withdrawal of immunosuppressive treatment resulted in the disappearance of KS.