IgA-dominant acute poststreptococcal glomerulonephritis with concomitant rheumatic fever successfully treated with steroids: a case report

There are only a few reports of the co-occurrence of acute poststreptococcal glomerulonephritis (APGN) and acute rheumatic fever. We report an unusual case of a 3-year-old boy with nephrotic syndrome and acute renal failure with the transitional need for peritoneal dialysis, biopsy-proven atypical I...

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Autores principales: Rus, Rina R, Toplak, Nataša, Vizjak, Alenka, Mraz, Jerica, Ferluga, Dušan
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Croatian Medical Schools 2015
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4707928/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26718763
http://dx.doi.org/10.3325/cmj.2015.56.567
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author Rus, Rina R
Toplak, Nataša
Vizjak, Alenka
Mraz, Jerica
Ferluga, Dušan
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Ferluga, Dušan
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description There are only a few reports of the co-occurrence of acute poststreptococcal glomerulonephritis (APGN) and acute rheumatic fever. We report an unusual case of a 3-year-old boy with nephrotic syndrome and acute renal failure with the transitional need for peritoneal dialysis, biopsy-proven atypical IgA-dominant APGN, and concomitant acute rheumatic fever, successfully treated by steroids. Aggressive treatment with pulses of methylprednisolone proved to be successful and we recommend its use in this type of cases.
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spelling pubmed-47079282016-01-14 IgA-dominant acute poststreptococcal glomerulonephritis with concomitant rheumatic fever successfully treated with steroids: a case report Rus, Rina R Toplak, Nataša Vizjak, Alenka Mraz, Jerica Ferluga, Dušan Croat Med J Case Report There are only a few reports of the co-occurrence of acute poststreptococcal glomerulonephritis (APGN) and acute rheumatic fever. We report an unusual case of a 3-year-old boy with nephrotic syndrome and acute renal failure with the transitional need for peritoneal dialysis, biopsy-proven atypical IgA-dominant APGN, and concomitant acute rheumatic fever, successfully treated by steroids. Aggressive treatment with pulses of methylprednisolone proved to be successful and we recommend its use in this type of cases. Croatian Medical Schools 2015-12 /pmc/articles/PMC4707928/ /pubmed/26718763 http://dx.doi.org/10.3325/cmj.2015.56.567 Text en Copyright © 2015 by the Croatian Medical Journal. All rights reserved. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.5/ This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted non-commercial use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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Rus, Rina R
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Ferluga, Dušan
IgA-dominant acute poststreptococcal glomerulonephritis with concomitant rheumatic fever successfully treated with steroids: a case report
title IgA-dominant acute poststreptococcal glomerulonephritis with concomitant rheumatic fever successfully treated with steroids: a case report
title_full IgA-dominant acute poststreptococcal glomerulonephritis with concomitant rheumatic fever successfully treated with steroids: a case report
title_fullStr IgA-dominant acute poststreptococcal glomerulonephritis with concomitant rheumatic fever successfully treated with steroids: a case report
title_full_unstemmed IgA-dominant acute poststreptococcal glomerulonephritis with concomitant rheumatic fever successfully treated with steroids: a case report
title_short IgA-dominant acute poststreptococcal glomerulonephritis with concomitant rheumatic fever successfully treated with steroids: a case report
title_sort iga-dominant acute poststreptococcal glomerulonephritis with concomitant rheumatic fever successfully treated with steroids: a case report
topic Case Report
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4707928/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26718763
http://dx.doi.org/10.3325/cmj.2015.56.567
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