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Renal Disease
Research results from P.D. Christopoulos and co-authors update knowledge of renal disease
April 20th, 2009
According to recent research from Freiburg, Germany, "A 65-year-old white female patient with normal baseline renal function was referred to our hospital with nonoliguric renal failure requiring hemodialysis after progressive deterioration over the previous 6 months. Her past medical history was remarkable for easy fatigability, weight loss, low-grade fever, hypogammaglobulinemia and mild hepatosplenomegaly manifested over the past 6 years." "Several liver and bone marrow biopsies during that period had shown a nonspecific polyclonal T-cell infiltration, and she was administered low-dose steroids for symptomatic relief. Physical examination, laboratory workup and...
Source: Gastroenterology Week (2009-04-20)
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