title: Three cases of late-onset oligomeganephronia.
abstract: Oligomeganephronia is classified as a subgroup of renal hypoplasia, characterized by histopathologic abnormalities which progress to end-stage renal disease (ESRD) by school age. We describe three adult cases of oligomeganephronia who have not yet developed ESRD. We performed a renal biopsy in all of them. The pathological features, consisting of a reduced number of enlarged glomeruli, were diagnostic of oligomeganephronia. It was assumed that the condition had not progressed to ESRD in the patients because the degree of loss of glomeruli may have been milder than that in typical cases of oligomeganephronia.
authors.affiliation: Department of Medicine, Kidney Center.
authors.forename: Kunio
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Kawanishi
authors.affiliation: Department of Medicine, Kidney Center.
authors.forename: Takashi
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Takei
authors.affiliation: Department of Medicine, Kidney Center.
authors.forename: Chiari
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Kojima
authors.affiliation: Department of Medicine, Kidney Center.
authors.forename: Takahito
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Moriyama
authors.affiliation: Department of Medicine, Kidney Center.
authors.forename: Hidekazu
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Sugiura
authors.affiliation: Department of Medicine, Kidney Center.
authors.forename: Mitsuyo
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Itabashi
authors.affiliation: Department of Medicine, Kidney Center.
authors.forename: Misao
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Tsukada
authors.affiliation: Department of Medicine, Kidney Center.
authors.forename: Keiko
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Uchida
authors.affiliation: Department of Pathology , Tokyo Women's Medical University , Tokyo , Japan.
authors.forename: Kazuho
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Honda
authors.affiliation: Department of Medicine, Kidney Center.
authors.forename: Kosaku
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Nitta
keywords: late-onset; low birth weight; oligomeganephronia; renal hypoplasia