Acute post-streptococcal glomerulonephritis in a renal allograft.
We report a 12-year-old male with acute post-streptococcal glomerulonephritis (APSGN) occurring 1 year after a cadaveric renal transplant. Although recurrent and de novo renal transplant glomerulonephritides have been well described in large series of adult and pediatric renal transplant recipients, post-infectious glomerulonephritis has been rarely reported, and APSGN has never been reported in either adult or pediatric transplant series. We speculate on the reasons for the lack of occurrence of APSGN in renal transplant recipients.
Sorof
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Pediatric Nephrology Division, University of California, San Francisco 94143-0748, USA.
Weidner
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Potter
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Portale
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D000208:Acute Disease; D000293:Adolescent; D000936:Antigen-Antibody Complex / Q000502:physiology; D005921:Glomerulonephritis / Q000209:etiology* / Q000276:immunology; D006801:Humans; D016867:Immunocompromised Host; D007676:Kidney Failure, Chronic / Q000628:therapy; D016030:Kidney Transplantation / Q000276:immunology*; D008297:Male; D013290:Streptococcal Infections / Q000150:complications* / Q000276:immunology; D014184:Transplantation, Homologous
D000936:Antigen-Antibody Complex