Saudi Journal of Kidney Diseases and Transplantation (Jan 2018)

Immune complex-mediated rapidly progressive glomerulonephritis in a patient with family history of systemic lupus erythematosus

  • Ahmad Alflaiw,
  • Ghormallah Alghamdi,
  • Khalid Alsaad,
  • Noura Aloudah

DOI
https://doi.org/10.4103/1319-2442.243949
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 29, no. 5
pp. 1227 – 1231

Abstract

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We describe here a case of a 53-year-old Saudi female who presented to the emergency room with shortness of breath progressive in nature for the previous one month, associated with a cough and occasional greenish sputum. She turned out to be a case of immunocomplex mediated glomerulonephritis presenting as rapidly progressive glomerulonephritis in a female patient with a history of systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE) in her daughter.