title: Collapsing glomerulopathy following anabolic steroid use in a 16-year-old boy with IgA nephropathy.
abstract: Collapsing glomerulopathy (CG) is a proliferative podocytopathy, increasingly recognized in a variety of disease conditions. We report a case of CG in a 16-year-old boy with IgA nephropathy (IgAN) who presented with acute kidney injury, marked proteinuria and hypertension following a short period of anabolic steroid use. Although CG has been associated with long-term anabolic steroid use among body builders, there is no data on the effect of anabolic steroid use in persons with underlying renal disease like IgAN. We postulate that development of CG in our patient could be temporally linked to intake of body-building steroids along with a predisposing background renal disease of IgAN.
authors.affiliation: Department of Pathology, Central Electron Microscopy Unit, Wellcome Trust Research Laboratory, Vellore, Tamil Nadu, India.
authors.forename: S M
authors.initials: SM
authors.lastname: Matthai
authors.affiliation: Department of Nephrology, Christian Medical College, Vellore, Tamil Nadu, India.
authors.forename: G
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Basu
authors.affiliation: Department of Nephrology, Christian Medical College, Vellore, Tamil Nadu, India.
authors.forename: S
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Varughese
authors.affiliation: Department of Pathology, Central Electron Microscopy Unit, Wellcome Trust Research Laboratory, Vellore, Tamil Nadu, India.
authors.forename: A B
authors.initials: AB
authors.lastname: Pulimood
authors.affiliation: Department of Nephrology, Christian Medical College, Vellore, Tamil Nadu, India.
authors.forename: T
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Veerasamy
authors.affiliation: Department of Pathology, Central Electron Microscopy Unit, Wellcome Trust Research Laboratory, Vellore, Tamil Nadu, India.
authors.forename: A
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Korula
keywords: Anabolic steroids; IgA nephropathy; collapsing glomerulopathy; human immunodeficiency virus-associated nephropathy
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