TY - JOUR KW - Adolescent KW - Glomerulonephritis, Membranoproliferative KW - Granuloma KW - Humans KW - Kidney Diseases KW - Kidney Glomerulus KW - leprosy KW - Male AU - Al-Mohaya S A AU - Coode P E AU - Alkhder A A AU - Al-Suhaibani M O AB -

A 17-year-old, Yemeni male patient with borderline lepromatous leprosy and erythema nodosum leprosum (ENL) developed a nephritic range proteinuria. A renal biopsy revealed mesangial proliferative glomerulonephritis and epithelioid granulomas in the interstitium. The presence of granular immunofluorescence for C3 and electron-dense deposits in the glomeruli indicated an immune complex glomerulonephritis. Clinical signs of ENL subsided rapidly under steroid treatment. The unusual combination of proliferative glomerulonephritis and epithelioid granulomas in leprosy is presented and discussed.

BT - International journal of leprosy and other mycobacterial diseases : official organ of the International Leprosy Association C1 - http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/3221115?dopt=Abstract DA - 1988 Dec IS - 4 J2 - Int. J. Lepr. Other Mycobact. Dis. LA - eng N2 -

A 17-year-old, Yemeni male patient with borderline lepromatous leprosy and erythema nodosum leprosum (ENL) developed a nephritic range proteinuria. A renal biopsy revealed mesangial proliferative glomerulonephritis and epithelioid granulomas in the interstitium. The presence of granular immunofluorescence for C3 and electron-dense deposits in the glomeruli indicated an immune complex glomerulonephritis. Clinical signs of ENL subsided rapidly under steroid treatment. The unusual combination of proliferative glomerulonephritis and epithelioid granulomas in leprosy is presented and discussed.

PY - 1988 SP - 599 EP - 602 T2 - International journal of leprosy and other mycobacterial diseases : official organ of the International Leprosy Association TI - Renal granuloma and mesangial proliferative glomerulonephritis in leprosy. VL - 56 SN - 0148-916X ER -