Acute poststreptococcal glomerulonephritis and acute rheumatic fever: occurrence in the same patient.
Group A streptococcus can cause both acute glomerulonephritis and acute rheumatic fever. The occurrence of characteristic acute poststreptococcal glomerulonephritis and acute rheumatic fever in the same patient is rare. We describe a 10-year-old girl with acute rheumatic fever who presented with the typical clinical and biopsy findings of acute poststreptococcal glomerulonephritis.
Matsell
D G
DG
Department of Pediatrics, University of Tennessee, Memphis.
Baldree
L A
LA
DiSessa
T G
TG
Gaber
L S
LS
Stapleton
F B
FB
D000208:Acute Disease; D001706:Biopsy; D002648:Child; D005260:Female; D005921:Glomerulonephritis / Q000382:microbiology* / Q000473:pathology; D006801:Humans; D007678:Kidney Glomerulus / Q000473:pathology; D012213:Rheumatic Fever / Q000150:complications*; D013292:Streptococcus agalactiae / Q000302:isolation & purification*