Publications by authors named "Sachiko Iwama"

We report the histological changes over time for a patient with infection-related glomerulonephritis (IRGN) that developed in a transplanted kidney. A 47-year-old man had undergone renal transplantation 3 years ago for end-stage kidney disease (ESKD). After several episodes of acute rejection, the patient was in a stable CKD condition.

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A 67-year-old woman who had undergone bone marrow transplantation 2 years previously for acute myeloid leukemia (AML) developed complications of chronic graft-versus-host disease (cGVHD). She thereafter also developed nephrotic syndrome, and membranous nephropathy (MN) was diagnosed by a renal biopsy. Although the causative antigens of the MN were not detected, immunofluorescence staining showed codominant deposition of immunoglobulins G2 and G3, a finding indicating secondary MN, thereby suggesting an association between MN and cGVHD.

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Background: To date, a few case reports have described the association between poststreptococcal acute glomerulonephritis (PSAGN) and hemolytic anemia/thrombocytopenia, both with or without a pathology similar to that of thrombotic microangiopathy (TMA). However, the detailed mechanism leading to the complication of TMA in PSAGN patients remains to be clarified. In contrast, infection with neuraminidase-producing Streptococcus pneumoniae is a well-known cause of TMA, and it has been reported that transient positivity of the direct Coombs test is observed in up to 90% of such patients.

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A 74-year-old Japanese woman was referred to our department because of anasarca and massive proteinuria. She was clinically diagnosed with nephrotic syndrome, and renal biopsy showed membranoproliferative glomerulonephritis accompanied by marked glomerular infiltration with macrophages and full-house immunofluorescence glomerular deposition. Furthermore, randomly arranged nonbranching fibrils, approximately 12 nm in diameter, were found by electron microscopy, and immunostaining for DnaJ homolog subfamily B member 9 (DNAJB9), a recently identified diagnostic biomarker of fibrillary glomerulonephritis (FGN), showed positive result, thereby confirming the diagnosis of FGN.

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We report a case of pure red cell aplasia (PRCA) caused by parvovirus B19 (PVB19) infection, which was transmitted through a kidney allograft. The patient underwent a living-donor kidney transplant from his wife at the age of 60. Despite successful engraftment with a normal creatinine level, he developed severe anemia that required frequent blood transfusions 2 months after transplantation.

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