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Retroperitoneal fibrosis and immune-complex glomerulonephritis
C Iwahashi1, H Nakajima, Y Handa
1Department of Internal Medicine, Omiya Red Cross Hospital, Saitama, Japan. chika-i@ja2.so-net.ne.jp
Clinical Nephrology
|June 8, 2001
Abstract:
A 63-year-old man with rapidly progressive glomerulonephritis of the immune-complex type showed typical findings of idiopathic retroperitoneal fibrosis involving the left ureter resulting in hydronephrosis. Treatment with steroid improved both conditions. Our case and previously reported cases showing the same association of conditions support the hypothesis that the association is not fortuitous but reflects a common immunological mechanism.