Poststreptococcal glomerulonephritis: a rare complication in pregnancy.
Streptococcus pyogenes rarely causes glomerulonephritis in pregnant women. The family physician must consider this nonsuppurative cause, however, in the differential diagnosis of a pregnant patient with edema, abnormal urinalysis, and declining renal function, as this case study demonstrates.
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Department of Family Medicine, University of Colorado, Denver 80220.
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D000328:Adult; D002648:Child; D005260:Female; D005921:Glomerulonephritis / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000209:etiology*; D006801:Humans; D007231:Infant, Newborn; D008297:Male; D010612:Pharyngitis / Q000382:microbiology*; D011247:Pregnancy; D011251:Pregnancy Complications, Infectious / Q000382:microbiology; D013290:Streptococcal Infections; D013297:Streptococcus pyogenes