Antiglomerular basement membrane antibody-crescentic glomerulonephritis complicating chronic bronchiectasis.
A 68-year-old woman with chronic bronchiectasis presented with haematuria and severe oligoanuric renal failure with no other serious systemic manifestation. Antiglomerular basement membrane (anti-GBM) antibodies and anti-myeloperoxidase antibodies were positive. Renal biopsy revealed anti-GBM crescentic glomerulonephritis. A conservative approach was followed and the patient is stable on chronic haemodialysis 6 months later. To the authors' knowledge, there has only been one previous report of anti-GBM disease complicating bronchiectasis.
Enríquez
R
R
Nephrology Section, Hospital General de Elche, Spain.
Cabezuelo
J B
JB
Sirvent
A E
AE
Andrada
E
E
Amorós
F
F
Orti
C
C
D000368:Aged; D000906:Antibodies / Q000276:immunology*; D001323:Autoantibodies; D001987:Bronchiectasis / Q000150:complications*; D002908:Chronic Disease; D005260:Female; D005921:Glomerulonephritis / Q000150:complications* / Q000276:immunology*; D006801:Humans; D007678:Kidney Glomerulus / Q000276:immunology*
D000906:Antibodies; D001323:Autoantibodies; C051951:antiglomerular basement membrane antibody