MPGN secondary to Lyme disease.
Lyme disease is a multisystem disorder with protean clinical manifestations that is caused by the tick-transmitted spirochete Borrelia burgdorferi. Infection caused by B burgdorferi is known to induce glomerulonephritis in animals. We report a patient with acute postinfection membranoproliferative glomerulonephritis after the clinical multisystem manifestation of Lyme disease, which was confirmed serologically. Although the patient was dialysis dependent for a protracted period of 5 months, the final outcome was excellent.
Kirmizis
Dimitrios
D
University Department of Nephrology, Hippokration General Hospital, Thessaloniki, Greece. kirmizis@med.auth.gr
Efstratiadis
Georgios
G
Economidou
Dominiki
D
Diza-Mataftsi
Evdoxia
E
Leontsini
Maria
M
Memmos
Dimitrios
D
D000368:Aged; D003937:Diagnosis, Differential; D015432:Glomerulonephritis, Membranoproliferative / Q000209:etiology* / Q000473:pathology / Q000628:therapy; D020275:Guillain-Barre Syndrome / Q000175:diagnosis; D006801:Humans; D008193:Lyme Disease / Q000150:complications* / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000188:drug therapy; D008297:Male; D006435:Renal Dialysis