Case Report
Nephrotic Syndrome Associated with Lung Cancer: A Rare Case of Malignancy Associated with AA Amyloidosis
Table 1
Biopsy-proven renal AA Amyloidosis associated with lung cancer.
| Author, year | Age (year)/sex | Cancer type and stage | Occurrence of renal damage in relation to cancer diagnosis | Renal presentation | Treatment | Outcome |
| Meyrier et al. [5] 1985 | 59/M | NSCLC | One year ago | NS | Chemotherapy | Died | Richmond et al. [6] 1990 | 72/M | Bronchial carcinoma | Simultaneously | Necropsic diagnosis | None | Died | Garthwaite et al. [7] 2003 | 64/M | Bronchial SCC | Simultaneously | NS, RI | Palliative | Hemodialysis | Paydas et al. [8] 2005 | 50/M | NSCLC IIIB | 2 years ago | NS, CRF | Patient refusal | Hemodialysis | Nobata et al. [2] 2012 | 71/M | Metastatic lung tumor from RCC | RCC 8 years ago | NS, ARF on CKD | Surgery | Hemodialysis | Our case | 56/M | NSCLC IIIB | 1 year ago | NS, ARF | Palliative | Renal function worsening |
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M: male, SCC: squamous cell carcinoma, NS: nephrotic syndrome, RI: renal insufficiency, CRF: chronic renal failure, ARF: acute renal failure, NSCLC: non small cell lung cancer, and RCC: renal cell carcinoma.
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