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- Title
End-stage renal disease as the presenting manifestation of renal systemic lupus erythematosus.
- Authors
Butani, Lavjay
- Abstract
About one-half of all children with systemic lupus erythematosus have clinical evidence of renal disease at initial presentation, such as proteinuria and acute renal failure. Herein, we report a case of a teenager who presented with end-stage renal disease (ESRD) of uncertain etiology, and who was subsequently determined to have lupus. The purpose of this report is to make health-care professionals aware of this unusual presentation of renal lupus, which has never been reported before. Children presenting in ESRD should be worked-up for autoimmune diseases since the discovery of such a disease process may impact future decision-making, especially with respect to subsequent renal transplantation.
- Subjects
SYSTEMIC lupus erythematosus; KIDNEY diseases; AUTOIMMUNE diseases; PROTEINURIA in children; GLOMERULONEPHRITIS; PEDIATRIC nephrology
- Publication
Pediatric Nephrology, 2007, Vol 22, Issue 1, p149
- ISSN
0931-041X
- Publication type
Report
- DOI
10.1007/s00467-006-0297-x