Diffuse Pulmonary Haemorrhage and Crescentic Glomerulonephritis

Diffuse alveolar haemorrhage in ANCA-negative pauci-immune crescentic glomerulonephritis

Pulmonary renal syndrome (PRS) is a combination of diffuse pulmonary haemorrhage and glomerulonephritis (GN). Though an established form of presentation in anti-neutrophil cytoplasmic autoantibody (ANCA)-associated GN and vasculitis, diffuse pulmonary haemorrhage is extremely unusual in those with ANCA-negative GN. We present here a case of a 76-year-old Hispanic female with stage IV chronic ki...

Cetuximab-Associated Crescentic Diffuse Proliferative Glomerulonephritis

Cetuximab-induced nephrotoxicity is very rare, occurring in less than 1% of colorectal cancer patients and not defined in other populations. We report a rare case of crescentic diffuse proliferative glomerulonephritis (GN) that developed in close temporal association with cetuximab treatment. A 65-year-old female recently completed chemotherapy with cetuximab treatment for moderately differenti...

Crescentic glomerulonephritis and centrocytic lymphoma.

T cells in crescentic glomerulonephritis.

Crescent formation in glomerulonephritis (GN) is a manifestation of severe glomerular injury that usually results in a poor clinical outcome. In humans, crescentic GN is frequently associated with evidence of either systemic or organ-specific autoimmunity. T cells play a major role in initiation of adaptive immune responses that lead to crescentic injury. In experimental models of crescentic GN...

New insight on crescentic glomerulonephritis

4þ haematuria, but urinary sediments showed few red blood cells (1-2-1/high-power fields). His renal function recovered concomitantly with improvement of haemolytic anaemia; thus, haemolysis might also have contributed to the development of his renal dysfunction. Indeed, haemolysisrelated renal dysfunction has occurred in patients with HCV infection [1]. Our patient showed cryoglobulinaemia, bu...