title: Lamivudine for the treatment of membranous glomerulopathy secondary to chronic Hepatitis B infection.
abstract: Membranous glomerulopathy is a well-recognized extrahepatic manifestation of chronic hepatitis B virus (HBV) infection. The authors report two cases of HBV-related nephrotic syndrome treated with lamivudine. A 46-year-old Chinese man had a hepatitis B e antigen seroconversion along with improvement in his nephrotic syndrome after lamivudine therapy. Two years after treatment was discontinued, a reactivation of HBV was successfully treated again with lamivudine. A 44-year-old Chinese woman, who was intolerant of interferon, was treated with lamivudine for 15 months without a virological response. However, two years after completing lamivudine, her nephrotic syndrome resolved. Implications for the treatment of HBV-related glomerulopathy and a review of the literature are presented.
authors.affiliation: Division of Gastroenterology, University of Calgary, 3330 Hospital Drive Northwest, Calgary, Alberta T2N 4N1, Canada.
authors.forename: S I
authors.initials: SI
authors.lastname: Gan
authors.forename: S M
authors.initials: SM
authors.lastname: Devlin
authors.forename: N W
authors.initials: NW
authors.lastname: Scott-Douglas
authors.forename: K W
authors.initials: KW
authors.lastname: Burak
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D005260:Female; D015433:Glomerulonephritis, Membranous / Q000188:drug therapy* / Q000209:etiology*; D019698:Hepatitis C, Chronic / Q000150:complications*; D006801:Humans; D019259:Lamivudine / Q000627:therapeutic use*; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D018894:Reverse Transcriptase Inhibitors / Q000627:therapeutic use*
chemical_list: D018894:Reverse Transcriptase Inhibitors; D019259:Lamivudine