Membranous nephropathy is the most common cause of nephrotic syndrome in adults. It can be associated with malignancy especially in elderly patients, however; sometimes it is difficult to distinguish. Hereby we present an interesting case of primary membranous nephropathy in a patient with renal cell carcinoma.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFBackground: The role of induction in low-risk, living-donor kidney transplants being treated with tacrolimus, mycophenolate mofetil, and prednisolone is debatable.
Materials And Methods: This was a retrospective study that consisted of patients undergoing living kidney transplantation between February 2010 and June 2021 with a related haplomatch donor, with maintenance immunosuppression of tacrolimus, mycophenolate mofetil, and prednisolone. High-risk transplants, such as second or more transplants, immunologically incompatible transplants, and steroid-free transplants, were excluded.
Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic is responsible for widespread morbidity and mortality. The vaccination against the severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-COV-2) infection, the cause of the COVID-19 pandemic, is currently ongoing across the globe. Rapid vaccination is of paramount importance to mitigate this pandemic.
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