Acute renal failure in hepatitis A.
A 21-year-old man developed acute renal failure early in the course of hepatitis A infection and recovered after 17 days. There was no evidence of pre-renal azotemia, the hepato-renal syndrome, ischemic acute tubular necrosis, rhabdomyolysis, or thrombotic microangiopathy. There was, however, transient proteinuria and hypocomplementemia. It would appear that the renal failure resulted from viral-induced injury, either direct or mediated by immune complexes.
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Department of Medicine, Cook County Hospital, Chicago, Illinois.
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D058186:Acute Kidney Injury / Q000209:etiology*; D000328:Adult; D005260:Female; D006506:Hepatitis A / Q000150:complications*; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged