Internal Medicine
Online ISSN : 1349-7235
Print ISSN : 0918-2918
ISSN-L : 0918-2918
CASE REPORTS
Successful Treatment of Resistant Antiglomerular Basement Membrane Antibody Positivity with Mycophenolic Acid
Ahmet Alper KiykimMehmet HorozEbru Gok
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2010 Volume 49 Issue 6 Pages 577-580

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Anti-glomerular basement membrane (GBM) antibody disease may progress to end-stage renal failure, requiring either dialysis or renal transplantation. In patients with end-stage renal disease (ESRD) due to anti-GBM-ab disease, the recurrence rate after transplantation is as high as 50% (2) and delaying renal transplantation until circulating anti-GBM antibody levels have been undetectable for at least 12 months reduces the recurrence rate to 5-15%. We report a case of ESRD due to renal limited anti-GBM disease with circulating anti-GBM-ab resistant to standard treatment approach who achieved undetectable anti-GBM-ab with mycophenolic acid.

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