Saudi Journal of Kidney Diseases and Transplantation (Jan 2013)

Post-partum bilateral renal cortical necrosis in antiphospholipid syndrome and systemic lupus erythematosus

  • Venkat Sainaresh Vellanki,
  • Sriramnaveen Parvathina,
  • Sivaramakrishna Gondi,
  • Manjusha Yadla,
  • Krishna Kishore Chenu,
  • Sivakumar Vishnubhotla

DOI
https://doi.org/10.4103/1319-2442.111064
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 24, no. 3
pp. 549 – 552

Abstract

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In the presence of systemic lupus erythematosus or related autoimmune disorders, antiphospholipid syndrome (APS) is termed secondary APS. Pregnancy-related renal failure due to SAPS is rarely reported in the literature. We present the case of a young primgravida woman with bilateral renal cortical necrosis due to secondary APS in late pregnancy.