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Successful rituximab treatment of TAFRO syndrome with pathological findings of glomerular endothelial damage.
Thrombocytopenia, anasarca, fever, renal insufficiency, and organomegaly constitute TAFRO syndrome, a variant of Castleman disease. We describe a patient with TAFRO syndrome who underwent renal biopsy. A 79-year-old woman was referred to us with fever and leg edema. She also had thrombocytopenia, pleural effusion, ascites, and acute kidney injury, and was admitted to our hospital. Her response to initial therapy with corticosteroid and cyclosporine was poor. Therefore, she received 4 doses of rituximab per week, which resulted in clinical improvement, including recovery of thrombocytopenia. A kidney biopsy thereafter showed diffuse, global glomerular endothelial injury indicating thrombotic microangiopathy (TMA). These findings suggested that TMA is associated with the thrombocytopenia and renal insufficiency of TAFRO syndrome.
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