Pigmentary Retinopathy with Nephrotic Syndrome, Menetrier's Disease, and Diabetes Mellitus

Jiro MASUGI, Hideyuki FUKUNAGA, Fukashi OCHI, Sachiko KIMURA, Tomonori AKAMATSU, Osamu NAKANO, Taizo SAKAMOTO, Masahide IWAI, Masahiko AMANO, Tsuneo FUKUDA, Tadahisa TERAMOTO, Sakan MAEDA
1994 Internal medicine (Tokyo. 1992)  
A patient with pigmentary retinopathy, nephrotic syndrome, Menetrier's disease, and diabetes mellitus is presented. Other complications were congestive heart failure, hypothyroidism, hypertension, and hypertriglyceridemia. Hypogenitalism was also suspected. Pigmentary retinopathy is knownto associate with manysystemic diseases, which are classified into several syndromes. This case superficially resembles Alstrom's disease due to the common characteristics of pigmentary retinopathy, diabetes
more » ... litus, renal disease, and hypogenitalism. But clinically and histologically, there are distinct differences. To our knowledge, this association has never been reported. (Internal Medicine 33: 644-648, 1994)
doi:10.2169/internalmedicine.33.644 fatcat:dhfyywwee5ae5llqkaix3fikj4