Immune complex-mediated rapidly progressive glomerulonephritis in a patient with family history of systemic lupus erythematosus

We describe here a case of a 53-year-old Saudi female who presented to the emergency room with shortness of breath progressive in nature for the previous one month, associated with a cough and occasional greenish sputum. She turned out to be a case of immunocomplex mediated glomerulonephritis presen...

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Veröffentlicht in:Saudi journal of kidney diseases and transplantation 2018-09, Vol.29 (5), p.1227-1231
Hauptverfasser: Flaiw, Ahmad, al-Ghamidi, Ghurm Allah, al-Sad, Khalid, al-Awdah, Nurah
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Zusammenfassung:We describe here a case of a 53-year-old Saudi female who presented to the emergency room with shortness of breath progressive in nature for the previous one month, associated with a cough and occasional greenish sputum. She turned out to be a case of immunocomplex mediated glomerulonephritis presenting as rapidly progressive glomerulo- nephritis in a female patient with a history of systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE) in her daughter
ISSN:1319-2442
2320-3838
DOI:10.4103/1319-2442.243949