Three patients were seen who had sarcoidosis associated with glomerulonephritis. Subsequent review of published reports of cases in which the two conditions occurred simultaneously showed a pattern of histological type of glomerulonephritis different from that seen in patients without associated disease. In sarcoidosis with glomerulonephritis there appeared to be a dearth of minimal-change dise...

'Pauci-immune' glomerulonephritis has been recognized as an important cause of rapidly progressive glomerulonephritis. The paucity of immune deposits can be separated from the other two major immunohistologic variants of crescentic glomerulonephritis, ie, antiglomerular basement membrane (GBM) antibody-mediated and immune complex-mediated glomerulonephritis. Here we describe the case of a 42-ye...

BACKGROUND The reported biopsy-proven glomerulonephritis incidence varies according to population characteristics, the unknown true glomerulonephritis incidence and biopsy rate. Reported glomerulonephritis incidence should be evaluated against the biopsy rate. METHODS We report here the glomerulonephritis incidence in our University Hospital (UH) consecutive biopsy material. It is compared to...

Renal involvement especially glomerulonephropathy in polymyositis or dermatomyositis is considered rare. Crescentic glomerulonephritis is even more so. Herein, we report a patient who was diagnosed with concurrent polymyositis and myeloperoxidase-related crescentic glomerulonephritis. We discuss the association between polymyositis or dermatomyositis and renal involvement, glomerulonephropathy,...

OBJECTIVE To investigate the occurrence of cervical intraepithelial neoplasia in women with glomerulonephritis and its possible association with immunosuppressive treatment. DESIGN Retrospective study of cytological or histological specimens from women presenting with glomerulonephritis and a group of case and age matched controls. SETTING University department of pathology, Norway. PATIE...

Staphylococcus aureus bacteremia can infrequently present as vasculitis or Acute Glomerulonephritis (AGN). The association between and these immune-mediated responses is rare remains a diagnostic challenge. We case of 62-year-old man with hypertension, hyperlipidemia, type II diabetes mellitus who presented joint pain, hematuria purpuric rash in his legs oral cavity after he dropped bag heavy m...

We report a 42-year-old man with subacute infectious endocarditis (IE) with septic pulmonary embolism, presenting rapidly progressive glomerulonephritis and positive proteinase 3-anti-neutrophil cytoplasmic antibody (PR3-ANCA). He had no previous history of heart disease. Renal histology revealed diffuse endocapillary proliferative glomerulonephritis with complement 3- (C3-) dominant staining a...

Rapidly progressive glomerulonephritis is the most aggressive form of glomerulonephritis with the worst prognosis. The current unspecific immunosuppressive therapy with corticosteroids and cytotoxic agents is often complicated by severe side effects. Peng and colleagues studied the therapeutic potential of the green tea component (-)-epigallocatechin-3-gallate (EGCG) in a murine model of immune...

A 59 year old woman with selective IgA deficiency associated with oligoarthritis and glomerulonephritis is described. She was seropositive for rheumatoid factor and renal histological examination showed a focal glomerulonephritis. High titre rheumatoid factor and a focal glomerulonephritis were also present in the only other well documented report of selective IgA deficiency and renal disease. ...