Improvement of renal failure due to membranous glomerulonephritis after unsuccessful renal transplantation.
Membranous glomerulonephritis is not usually considered to be responsive to steroid or cytotoxic therapy. This report describes a patient with advanced renal failure who responded to treatment with prednisolone and azathioprine, initially given as immunosuppression for a renal graft which did not function.
D001379:Azathioprine / Q000627:therapeutic use; D005921:Glomerulonephritis / Q000150:complications / Q000188:drug therapy*; D006084:Graft Rejection; D006801:Humans; D007166:Immunosuppressive Agents / Q000627:therapeutic use*; D007676:Kidney Failure, Chronic / Q000188:drug therapy* / Q000209:etiology; D016030:Kidney Transplantation; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D011239:Prednisolone / Q000627:therapeutic use; D014184:Transplantation, Homologous
D007166:Immunosuppressive Agents; D011239:Prednisolone; D001379:Azathioprine