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Clin Kidney J
; 8(4): 430-2, 2015 Aug.
Artigo
em Inglês
| MEDLINE
| ID: mdl-26251711
RESUMO
There has been a re-emergence of interest in adrenocorticotropic hormone (ACTH) in patients with resistant nephrotic syndrome. We describe a patient with severe nephrosis and advanced chronic kidney disease with idiopathic membranous nephropathy resistant to conventional immunosuppressive therapies that achieved lasting remission with ACTH therapy. We explore the literature showing the extra renoprotective effects which might explain the response of proteinuric renal diseases to this treatment.