Circulating Factor Associated with Increased Glomerular Permeability to Albumin in Recurrent Focal Segmental Glomerulosclerosis

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Authors

Virginia J. Savin · Medical College of Wisconsin

Ram Sharma · University of Kansas Medical Center

Mukut Sharma · University of Kansas Medical Center

Ellen T. McCarthy · University of Kansas Medical Center

Suzanne K. Swan · Hennepin County Medical Center

Eileen Ellis · Arkansas Children's Hospital

Helen Lovell

Abstract

A circulating factor found in some patients with focal segmental glomerulosclerosis is associated with recurrent disease after renal transplantation and may be responsible for initiating the renal injury.

Topics & Keywords

Renal Diseases and Glomerulopathies Chronic Kidney Disease and Diabetes Biomedical Research and Pathophysiology

UN Sustainable Development Goals

Good health and well-being

Publication Details

Published in: New England Journal of Medicine

Volume 334, Issue 14, pp. 878-883

DOI: 10.1056/nejm199604043341402

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