Yeungnam University Journal of Medicine  2013;30(2):149-151

doi:10.12701/yujm.2013.30.2.149

A Case of Immunoglobulin A Nephropathy in a Patient with Kimura's Disease.

Hye Jung PARK 1 ; Jae Kyung KIM ; Hyun Ju KIM ; Kwan Kyu PARK ; Yoon Sung BAE ; Yong Kyu LEE ; Beom Seok KIM

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Keywords

Glomerulonephritis; Immunoglobulin A; Angiolymphoid hyperplasia with eosinophilia; Proteinuria

Country

Republic of Korea

Language

English

Abstract

Kimura's disease is an angiolymphoid-proliferative disorder that manifests with benign subcutaneous swelling predominantly in the head and the neck. Kidney involvement, including proteinuria, occurs in 12-16% of patients with the disease, and 60-78% of such cases is nephrotic syndrome. Reported etiologies of nephrotic syndrome in Kimura's disease include membranous glomerulonephritis, mesangial proliferative glomerulonephritis, minimal-change disease, focal segmental glomerulosclerosis, diffuse proliferative glomerulonephritis and immunoglobulin A (IgA) nephropathy. There have been only two case reports of IgA nephropathy in Kimura's disease, in 1998. In this report, we present a third case of IgA nephropathy associated with Kimura's disease.