The pregnant patient with partial lipodystrophy developing acute renal failure--onset of de novo membranoproliferative glomerulonephritis.

The pregnant patient with partial lipodystrophy developing acute renal failure—onset of de novo membranoproliferative glomerulonephritis Key words: acute renal failure; pregnancy; partial lipo-towards the end of the gestation period, between 34 dystrophy; low C3; membranoproliferative nephritis and 38 weeks, and it is invariably the result of pre-eclampsia and its complications or the result of severe blood loss [5–7]. Occasionally post-infectious glom-erulonephritis may occur during pregnancy and can be