Saudi Journal of Kidney Diseases and Transplantation (Jan 2014)

Snake bite complicated by acute kidney injury secondary to necrotizing glomerulonephritis

  • Mohammad A Al Qahtani,
  • Abdulrahman Altheaby,
  • T Al Anazi,
  • Khaled Al Saad,
  • S Binsalih,
  • Mohammed Al Helail

DOI
https://doi.org/10.4103/1319-2442.144263
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 25, no. 6
pp. 1259 – 1262

Abstract

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We present a 38-year-old man who presented to the emergency department with complaints of a snake bite. He developed acute kidney injury (AKI) and the kidney biopsy showed necrotizing glomerulonephritis, which is rarely reported in AKI after snake bite.