Scleroderma with crescentic glomerulonephritis: a case report

Scleroderma with crescentic glomerulonephritis: a case report

INTRODUCTION Systemic sclerosis or scleroderma is an autoimmune rheumatic disease characterized by organ-based fibrosis. Renal involvement in scleroderma occurs mainly in the form of scleroderma renal crisis, affecting 5 to 10% of patients. It remains one of the most important and immediately life-threatening complications of scleroderma, but the prognosis improves considerably after treatment ...

Necrotizing crescentic glomerulonephritis related to sarcoidosis: a case report

INTRODUCTION Renal injury due to sarcoidosis develops in less than a quarter of patients with this systemic disease. In most cases, granulomatous tissue alters the production of vitamin D, which leads to hypercalciuria, nephrocalcinosis, and nephrolithiasis. Granulomatous interstitial nephritis is another well-recognized pathological process associated with sarcoidosis. However, a glomerular pa...

Crescentic Glomerulonephritis in IgA Multiple Myeloma: A Case Report

BACKGROUND There are few reports of glomerulonephritis (GN) with crescents and a rapidly progressive course that lead to a diagnosis of a previously unsuspected B-cell dyscrasia. CASE PRESENTATION We report a case of rapidly progressive GN: the patient showed no evidence of etiology at the time of biopsy and was diagnosed as IgA multiple myeloma (MM) during investigation based on a renal biop...

A case of crescentic glomerulonephritis associated with polymyositis.

A case report of crescentic glomerulonephritis associated with Hantaan virus infection.

Although various glomerular diseases in hantavirus infection have been reported, an association between hantavirus infection and crescentic glomerulonephritis has not been described. Herein, we report a case of immune complex-mediated crescentic glomerulonephritis in a 70-year-old man with Hantaan virus infection.