Open AccessThe pregnant patient with partial lipodystrophy developing acute renal failure - onset of de novo membranoproliferative glomerulonephritis
Author(s) -
Kiproulla Demetriou,
I Kallikas,
Ioanna Zouvani,
Kyriacos Kyriacou,
Alkis Pierides
Publication year - 1998
Publication title -
nephrology, dialysis, transplantation/nephrology dialysis transplantation
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.654
H-Index - 168
eISSN - 1460-2385
pISSN - 0931-0509
DOI - 10.1093/ndt/13.8.2121
Subject(s) - medicine , membranoproliferative glomerulonephritis , lipodystrophy , glomerulonephritis , immunology , kidney , human immunodeficiency virus (hiv) , antiretroviral therapy , viral load
acute renal failure; pregnancy; partial lipo- towards the end of the gestation period, between 34dystrophy; low C3; membranoproliferative nephritis and 38 weeks, and it is invariably the result of pre-eclampsia and its complications or the result of severeblood loss [5–7]. Occasionally post-infectious glom-erulonephritis may occur during pregnancy and can be