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Secondary polycythaemia associated with idiopathic membranous nephropathy
I H Khan1, J G Simpson, A M MacLeod
1Department of Medicine and Therapeutics, University of Aberdeen, Foresterhill, UK.
Nephron
|January 1, 1993
Abstract:
A 44-year-old man developed idiopathic membranous nephropathy and true secondary polycythaemia. With advancing azotemia, polycythaemia gradually resolved and venesection was no longer required. Only 2 cases of polycythaemia associated with membranous nephropathy have been reported previously. Secondary polycythaemia is a rarely reported association of membranous nephropathy and may increase the risk of thromboembolism, which might be prevented with venesection.