Hepatitis B virus-associated nephropathy: 17 year progression from onset to end-stage renal failure.
Hepatitis B virus-associated nephropathy (HB nephropathy) was first described in 1971. There have been few reports on the long-term prognosis in children with HB nephropathy. A case is reported here of a child who presented with symptoms of acute glomerulonephritis at 12 years of age and progressed to end-stage renal failure 17 years after the clinical onset, in spite of the seroconversion of HB virus by formation of HBe antibody.
Tomonaga
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Department of Pediatrics, Kitasato University School of Medicine, Kanagawa, Japan.
Iitaka
K
K
Nakamura
S
S
Moriya
S
S
Hojo
M
M
Sakai
T
T
D000208:Acute Disease; D000328:Adult; D018450:Disease Progression; D005921:Glomerulonephritis / Q000209:etiology*; D006509:Hepatitis B / Q000150:complications*; D006801:Humans; D007676:Kidney Failure, Chronic / Q000209:etiology*; D008297:Male