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[Nephrotic syndrome after extended thymectomy for thymoma with myasthenia gravis; report of a case]

T Yoshida1, T Suzuki, S Suzuki

  • 1Department of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery, Showa University Fujigaoka Hospital, Yokohama, Japan.

Kyobu Geka. the Japanese Journal of Thoracic Surgery
|March 15, 2006
PubMed

A 35-year-old man visited our hospital complaining of blepharoptosis and fatigability of the left arm. Under a diagnosis of myasthenia gravis (Osserman Ila), ambenonium was administered and improvements were noted. At 40-year-old, the patient underwent extended thymectomy due to the development of thymoma, which invaded the lung and pericardium (Masaoka stage Ill). Then ADOC therapy (doxorubicin hydrochloride+cisplatin+vincristine sulfate+cyclophosphamide) was initiated. At 47-year-old, we found recurrence of disseminated thymoma in thoracic cavity. Because of multiple metastatic lesions, radiotherapy in combination with chemotherapy was chosen and these lesions were reduced in size. Facial and foot edema developed at 50-year-old. Chest X-ray revealed bilateral pleural effusion. He was diagnosed as minimal change nephrotic syndrome and steroid therapy was started. The changes in cellular immunity due to thymoma is considered to be causative in the development of nephrotic syndrome. We report the clinical course of our case and discuss with reference to the literature.

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