RECOVERY OF MINIMAL CHANGE NEPHROTIC SYNDROME AND ACUTE-RENAL-FAILUREIN A PATIENT WITH RENAL-CELL CARCINOMA

We describe a 78-year-old patient with nephrotic syndrome due to minim al-change glomerulopathy, associated with a renal adenocarcinoma. Olig uric acute renal failure requiring hemodialysis was also observed, Sur gical removal of the tumor and corticosteroid therapy resulted in reso lution of the nephrotic state and improvement of the renal function. N ephrotic syndrome is an unusual complication of renal cell carcinomas, and the association of minimal-change glomerulopathy (MCG) and solid tumors is particularly uncommon. In spite of this, MCG should be consi dered in the nephropathies causing nephrotic syndrome and acute renal failure in patients with renal malignancies.