A Case of Essential Thrombocythemia and IgA Nephropathy with Literature Review of the Concurrence
Table 1
Biopsy results of essential thrombocythemia and glomerulonephropathy cases.
Case
Sex
Age
Renal biopsy findings
Renal diagnosis
Time after ET diagnosis
Source
1
Male
68
Mesangial PAS (+) fibrillary deposits without mesangial proliferation or crescent formation (+) IgG on immunohistochemical staining Weakly (+) IgA, IgM, and C3
Mesangial proliferation IgM (+) on immunohistochemical staining Weakly IgA (+) on immunohistochemical staining Without mesangial deposits on electron microscopy
Mesangial hypercellularity Membrane thickening with mesangial proliferation IgG and IgA (+) on immunohistochemical staining Foot podocyte effacement and subendothelial on electron microscopy