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Successful treatment of lipoprotein glomerulopathy in a daughter and a mother using niceritrol.
Clinical and experimental nephrology - 1 Dec 2010
Hamatani Hiroko, Hiromura Keiju, Kobatake Keiko, Yoshida Hiroaki, Kobayashi Satsuki, Yoneda Naohiro, Kayakabe Ken, Matsumoto Takayuki, Kuroiwa Takashi, Ueki Kazue, Nojima Yoshihisa
Abstract excerpt
We report two patients, a daughter and a mother, with lipoprotein glomerulopathy (LPG) who were successfully treated with niceritrol. Both patients carried a mutation in the apolipoprotein E (apoE) gene known as ApoE Tokyo/Maebashi. The daughter was found to have proteinuria at the age of 4 years. Four years later, she was diagnosed as having LPG based on a renal biopsy. She was treated with several medications...
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