Korean J Med.
2004 Oct;67(4):409-415.
A case of minimal change nephropathy with malignant thymoma
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- 1Department of Internal Medicine, Inje university, Collage of Medicine Sanggyepaik Hospital, Seoul, Korea. Wondoful1958@sanggyaepaik.ac.kr
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- It is the first case that nephrotic syndrome with malignant thymoma reported in Korea. A 56-year-old man have had generalized edema, weight gain, dyspnea, oliguria for 10 days. At that time, a full blown nephrotic syndrome developed, with minimal change glomerulopathy, A mediastinum mass was shown by the chest X-ray. Thymectomy and palliative radiotherapy was done. In the treatment of nephrotic syndrome, firstly diuretics and prednisolone were given. but the response was poor, so additionally cyclophosphamide and azathioprine were given. After 1 year passed, the patient died of the respiratory failure with pulmonary fibrosis of complication of radiotherapy, without improvement in nephrotic syndrome.
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