Chronic myeloid leukemia in a child with IgA nephropathy
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Amish Udani1, Mahalingam Vijayakumar, Nageswaran Prahlad
1Department of Pediatric Nephrology, Mehta Children's Hospitals, Chennai, India.
Indian Pediatrics
|September 11, 2012
Abstract:
We report an 11 year old boy with IgA nephropathy developing chronic myeloid leukemia on follow-up. This association suggests that a B cell defect might be involved in the pathogenesis of these two conditions.