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Necrotizing and crescentic glomerulonephritis with membranous nephropathy in a patient exposed to levamisole-adulterated cocaine
Levamisole is an antihelminthic agent widely used as an adulterant of illicit cocaine recently implicated as a cause of antineutrophil cytoplasmic antibody (ANCA)–associated microscopic polyangiitis in cocaine abusers. An isolated case of membranous nephropathy (MN) associated with levamisole exposu...
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2016
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4792616/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26985374 http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/ckj/sfv141 |
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author | Carrara, Camillo Emili, Stefano Lin, Mercury Alpers, Charles E. |
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description | Levamisole is an antihelminthic agent widely used as an adulterant of illicit cocaine recently implicated as a cause of antineutrophil cytoplasmic antibody (ANCA)–associated microscopic polyangiitis in cocaine abusers. An isolated case of membranous nephropathy (MN) associated with levamisole exposure has also been reported. We report the first case, to our knowledge, of a patient with both microscopic polyangiitis manifest as a pauci-immune necrotizing and crescentic glomerulonephritis and concurrent MN in the setting of chronic cocaine abuse and presumed levamisole exposure, raising the hypothesis that levamisole was the causative agent in the development of this rare dual glomerulopathy. |
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spelling | pubmed-47926162016-03-16 Necrotizing and crescentic glomerulonephritis with membranous nephropathy in a patient exposed to levamisole-adulterated cocaine Carrara, Camillo Emili, Stefano Lin, Mercury Alpers, Charles E. Clin Kidney J Glomerulonephritis Levamisole is an antihelminthic agent widely used as an adulterant of illicit cocaine recently implicated as a cause of antineutrophil cytoplasmic antibody (ANCA)–associated microscopic polyangiitis in cocaine abusers. An isolated case of membranous nephropathy (MN) associated with levamisole exposure has also been reported. We report the first case, to our knowledge, of a patient with both microscopic polyangiitis manifest as a pauci-immune necrotizing and crescentic glomerulonephritis and concurrent MN in the setting of chronic cocaine abuse and presumed levamisole exposure, raising the hypothesis that levamisole was the causative agent in the development of this rare dual glomerulopathy. Oxford University Press 2016-04 2015-12-28 /pmc/articles/PMC4792616/ /pubmed/26985374 http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/ckj/sfv141 Text en © The Author 2015. Published by Oxford University Press on behalf of ERA-EDTA. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/ This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/), which permits non-commercial re-use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. For commercial re-use, please contact journals.permissions@oup.com |
spellingShingle | Glomerulonephritis Carrara, Camillo Emili, Stefano Lin, Mercury Alpers, Charles E. Necrotizing and crescentic glomerulonephritis with membranous nephropathy in a patient exposed to levamisole-adulterated cocaine |
title | Necrotizing and crescentic glomerulonephritis with membranous nephropathy in a patient exposed to levamisole-adulterated cocaine |
title_full | Necrotizing and crescentic glomerulonephritis with membranous nephropathy in a patient exposed to levamisole-adulterated cocaine |
title_fullStr | Necrotizing and crescentic glomerulonephritis with membranous nephropathy in a patient exposed to levamisole-adulterated cocaine |
title_full_unstemmed | Necrotizing and crescentic glomerulonephritis with membranous nephropathy in a patient exposed to levamisole-adulterated cocaine |
title_short | Necrotizing and crescentic glomerulonephritis with membranous nephropathy in a patient exposed to levamisole-adulterated cocaine |
title_sort | necrotizing and crescentic glomerulonephritis with membranous nephropathy in a patient exposed to levamisole-adulterated cocaine |
topic | Glomerulonephritis |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4792616/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26985374 http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/ckj/sfv141 |
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