Footnotes

• Handling editor Iskander Chaudhry.

• Correction notice This article has been corrected since it was published Online First. Aperio slide links have been corrected.

• Contributors All authors contributed significantly to this manuscript. MGP, IA and MA contributed equally to this work, collecting data, searching references and writing the first draft. RM helped at the diagnosis and treatment of the nephropathy and help us with the additional studies requested. FD advised on renal and pleural histology. RA, AC and MM contributed to this work revising it critically for important intellectual content. All authors have read and approved the final manuscript.

• Funding The authors have not declared a specific grant for this research from any funding agency in the public, commercial or not-for-profit sectors.

• Competing interests None declared.

• Patient consent for publication Not required.

• Provenance and peer review Not commissioned; internally peer reviewed.