Acute renal failure due to focal necrotizing glomerulonephritis in a patient with non-Hodgkin's lymphoma. Resolution with treatment of lymphoma.
Renal disease in association with lymphoma is more prevalent than generally recognized. Glomerulonephritis may occur as a paraneoplastic phenomenon. We report a patient who presented with acute renal failure due to focal necrotizing glomerulonephritis in association with non-Hodgkin's lymphoma in whom the acute renal failure and glomerulonephritis resolved on clinical, biochemical and histological grounds with treatment of the lymphoma. Focal necrotizing glomerulonephritis is extremely uncommon in association with lymphoma and, to our knowledge, this association with follow-up and histological resolution of glomerulonephritis has not previously been reported.
Pollock
C A
CA
Royal North Shore Hospital, St. Leonards, N.S.W., Australia.
Ibels
L S
LS
Levi
J A
JA
Eckstein
R P
RP
Wakeford
P
P
D058186:Acute Kidney Injury / Q000209:etiology*; D005921:Glomerulonephritis / Q000150:complications*; D005923:Glomerulosclerosis, Focal Segmental / Q000150:complications* / Q000473:pathology / Q000628:therapy; D006801:Humans; D007668:Kidney / Q000473:pathology; D015451:Leukemia, Lymphocytic, Chronic, B-Cell / Q000150:complications* / Q000628:therapy; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D009336:Necrosis