Concomitant Nephrotic Syndrome and Cryoglobulinemia in a Case of Malignant Mesothelioma. 2022

Kei Nagai, and Hiroaki Tachi, and Kohei Inoue, and Atsushi Ueda
Department of Nephrology, Hitachi General Hospital, 2-1-1 Jonan-cho, Hitachi, Ibaraki 317-0077, Japan.

Malignant pleural mesothelioma is rarely associated with nephrotic syndrome. Cryoglobulinemia is found in various pathological statuses, such as hepatitis C virus infection but rarely in malignant neoplasms. We recently encountered a patient with malignant mesothelioma coincident with nephrotic syndrome and cryoglobulinemia in the course of chemotherapy. A 60-year-old man employed as a building painter was diagnosed with malignant mesothelioma by lung biopsy two years earlier and was started on chemotherapy. Nivolumab seemed effective in controlling mesothelioma, but skin immune-related adverse events occurred during the course of treatment. After discontinuation of nivolumab and administration of gemcitabine as an alternative therapy, the patient was referred to a nephrologist because of the subsequent development of edema, renal injury, and proteinuria. Following the investigation, he was diagnosed with nephrotic syndrome and cryoglobulinemia with C4-dominant cold activation. However, a percutaneous renal biopsy could not be performed due to persistent severe cough induced by pleural involvement. The patient died a little over three years after the pathological diagnosis of pleural mesothelioma. Our case had three key features nephrotic syndrome was possibly associated with malignant mesothelioma; cryoglobulinemia occurred in malignant mesothelioma; and concomitant nephrotic syndrome and cryoglobulinemia occurred after chemotherapy. Unfortunately, our rare case lacks a basis in renal pathology or evidence of links between the pathogenesis of malignant mesothelioma, cryoglobulinemia, and nephrotic syndrome. This case does not provide a causal mechanism, but may be worth adding to the case list as one of the rare renal involvement in a patient with malignant mesothelioma.

UI MeSH Term Description Entries

Related Publications

Kei Nagai, and Hiroaki Tachi, and Kohei Inoue, and Atsushi Ueda
January 1994, Nephron,
Kei Nagai, and Hiroaki Tachi, and Kohei Inoue, and Atsushi Ueda
January 2014, Internal medicine (Tokyo, Japan),
Kei Nagai, and Hiroaki Tachi, and Kohei Inoue, and Atsushi Ueda
September 1986, Archives of internal medicine,
Kei Nagai, and Hiroaki Tachi, and Kohei Inoue, and Atsushi Ueda
June 2009, Journal of medical case reports,
Kei Nagai, and Hiroaki Tachi, and Kohei Inoue, and Atsushi Ueda
January 1962, France Medecine,
Kei Nagai, and Hiroaki Tachi, and Kohei Inoue, and Atsushi Ueda
October 1961, The American journal of medicine,
Kei Nagai, and Hiroaki Tachi, and Kohei Inoue, and Atsushi Ueda
December 1983, Australian and New Zealand journal of medicine,
Kei Nagai, and Hiroaki Tachi, and Kohei Inoue, and Atsushi Ueda
January 2016, Nihon Jinzo Gakkai shi,
Kei Nagai, and Hiroaki Tachi, and Kohei Inoue, and Atsushi Ueda
January 2012, Bratislavske lekarske listy,
Kei Nagai, and Hiroaki Tachi, and Kohei Inoue, and Atsushi Ueda
October 2020, The Tohoku journal of experimental medicine,
Copied contents to your clipboard!