| Literature DB >> 19917171 |
N Maruotti1, A Corrado, A Gaudio, F P Cantatore.
Abstract
Rheumatoid arthritis is a chronic disease characterized by inflammation, abnormal cellular and humoral immune responses, synovial hyperplasia and rarely by renal involvement, characterized principally by secondary amyloidosis and nephrotoxic effects related to drugs, while renal lesions directly due to the disease itself are infrequent. In this report we describe a patient with rheumatoid arthritis who developed membranous nephropathy associated with nephrotic syndrome while receiving adalimumab, an anti-tumour necrosis factor-alpha drug.Entities:
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Year: 2009 PMID: 19917171
Source DB: PubMed Journal: Clin Exp Rheumatol ISSN: 0392-856X Impact factor: 4.473