Journal of Nephrology & Therapeutics

Lemrabott AT

Publications

• Case Report
  Light Chain Deposition Disease in Black African, Report of Three Cases from Senegal
  Author(s): Mouhamadou Moustapha Cisse, Fall S, Lemrabott AT, Ka EF, Fall K, Faye M, Niang A and Diouf BMouhamadou Moustapha Cisse, Fall S, Lemrabott AT, Ka EF, Fall K, Faye M, Niang A and Diouf B
  
  Background: Although there are numerous publications on multiple myeloma in black people, it seems sub- Saharan literature particularly Senegalese’ one is silent about Light chain deposition disease (LCDD) which is linked to immunoglobulin light chain deposition in glomerulus. The authors report the first three observations of LCDD collected in Nephrology department of Aristide Le Dantec hospital in Dakar, Senegal. Cases: we report three cases a man and two women of 61, 69 and 47 years old respectively, admitted to the Nephrology department of Aristide Le Dantec hospital for rapidly progressive renal failure in one case and a nephrotic syndrome in 2 other cases. The renal biopsy showed a nodular glomerulosclerosis and immunofluorescence microscopy, revealed deposition of IgG light chains suggesting LCDD. On t.. Read More»
  DOI: 10.4172/2161-0959.S1-003

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