Focal segmental glomerulosclerosis

Systemic scleroderma (SSc) is an insidious autoimmune connective tissue disorder with multiorgan involvement. Renal involvement is one of the important causes of morbidity and mortality in scleroderma; however, nephrotic syndrome is reported rarely in association with SSc. We present a patient with SSc who developed focal segmental glomerulosclerosis (FSGS) as a complication of scleroderma.

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Part 1 book "Glomerulonephritis" includes content: Approach to renal biopsy, mechanisms of glomerular disease, diagnostic testing in glomerular disease, histopathology of glomerular diseases, overview of the current approach to glomerular disease classification, integration with kidney disease improving global outcomes,... and other contents.

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Renal toxicity has been reported with bisphosphonates such as pamidronate and zolidronate but not with ibandronate, in the treatment of breast cancer patients with bone metastasis. One of the patterns of bisphosphonate-induced nephrotoxicity is focal segmental glomerulosclerosis (FSGS) or its morphological variant, collapsing focal segmental glomerulosclerosis (CFSGS).

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