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- Title
Minimal change disease in graft versus host disease: a podocyte response to the graft?
- Authors
Huskey, Janna; Rivard, Chris; Myint, Han; Lucia, Scott; Smith, Maxwell; Shimada, Michiko; Ishimoto, Takuji; Araya, Carlos; Garin, Eduardo H; Johnson, Richard J
- Abstract
Nephrotic syndrome is a rare complication of hematopoietic cell transplantation. It has been suggested that nephrotic syndrome may represent a limited form of graft-versus-host disease although the pathological link between these two entities remains unclear. In this paper, we report a case of a 61-year-old female who underwent nonmyeloablative allogenic stem cell transplantation for T-cell prolymphocytic leukemia and subsequently developed biopsy proven minimal change disease shortly after cessation of her immunosuppression therapy. Urinary CD80 was markedly elevated during active disease and disappeared following corticosteroid-induced remission. We hypothesize that alloreactive donor T cells target the kidney and induce podocyte expression of CD80 that results in proteinuria from limited 'graft versus host' disease.
- Publication
Clinical nephrology, 2013, Vol 80, Issue 6, p469
- ISSN
0301-0430
- Publication type
Journal Article
- DOI
10.5414/CN107420