A Case of Vancomycin-resistant E. faecium Peritonitis in Patient with Continuous Ambulatory Peritoneal Dialysis / 감염

Enterococcus is a normal flora of the gastrointestinal or genitourinary tract. With the increased use of vancomycin and third generation cephalosporins, vancomycin-resistant enterococci (VRE) have become one of the major nosocomial pathogens in USA and Europe since 1986. In Korea, patients with VRE infection or colonization were increasingly reported recently and VRE may become a serious nosocomial pathogen in the near future. So we report a case of vancomycin-resistant E. faecium peritonitis in a patient on continuous ambulatory peritoneal dialysis.

Two Cases of Membranous Glomerulopathy Associated with Psoriasis Vulgaris / 대한신장학회잡지

Membranous glumerulonephrophy was found in two men who were diagnosed as psoriasis vulgaris. In the first patient, membranous glumerulonephropathy was developed during treatment of psoriasis and deterioration of proteinuria was appeared with aggravation of skin lesion although treated with cyclophosphamide. In the second patient, psoriasis developed during treatment of membranous glomerulonephropathy and we observed the improvement of nephrotic syndrome and psoriasis with prednisolone treatment. The simultaneous deterioration and improvement of proteinuria and skin lesion of psoriasis suggests that underlying common immune abnormalities may be involved in the pathogenesis of both psoriasis and membranous glomerulopathy.