title: End-stage renal disease as the presenting manifestation of renal systemic lupus erythematosus.
abstract: About one-half of all children with systemic lupus erythematosus have clinical evidence of renal disease at initial presentation, such as proteinuria and acute renal failure. Herein, we report a case of a teenager who presented with end-stage renal disease (ESRD) of uncertain etiology, and who was subsequently determined to have lupus. The purpose of this report is to make health-care professionals aware of this unusual presentation of renal lupus, which has never been reported before. Children presenting in ESRD should be worked-up for autoimmune diseases since the discovery of such a disease process may impact future decision-making, especially with respect to subsequent renal transplantation.
authors.affiliation: Section of Pediatric Nephrology, University of California Davis Children's Hospital, 2516 Stockton Boulevard, Sacramento, CA 95817, USA. lavjay.butani@ucdmc.ucdavis.edu
authors.forename: Lavjay
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Butani
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007676:Kidney Failure, Chronic / Q000209:etiology* / Q000601:surgery; D016030:Kidney Transplantation; D008180:Lupus Erythematosus, Systemic / Q000150:complications* / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000628:therapy