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We herein report the case of a 43-year-old female patient admitted to our hospital with sudden onset dyspnea, abdominal pain, diffuse edema, weight gain of 7 kg, dyspepsia and polyarthralgia. The patient had been recently diagnosed with systemic erythematosus lupus based on polyarthralgia, normocytic anemia and positivity of antinuclear antibody and anti-Sjögren’s syndrome type A (anti-SSA) antibody. The laboratory investigations showed an acute kidney injury with nephrotic syndrome, anti-SSA and antiSjögren’s syndrome type B (anti-SSB) antibody positivity, low complement component 4 levels and hypergammaglobulinemia. Cryoglobulinemia was excluded. A percutaneous kidney biopsy was performed the day after her admission. The patient was rapidly treated with high-doses of intravenous corticosteroids, but her clinical condition and renal failure worsened with an estimated glomerular filtration rate of 19 mL/min. The kidney biopsy revealed acute tubulointerstitial nephritis with massive lymphoplasmacytic infiltrate positive for anti-cluster of differentiation 20 antibody and no expression of anti-immunoglobulin G4 antibody (Figure 1a, b). Because of the important lymphocytic infiltrate, a bone marrow biopsy was performed to exclude lymphoma and showed a rich marrow cellularity with polyclonal plasmacytosis (Figure 1c, d). Positron emission tomography (PET)-fluorodeoxyglucose (FDG) scan did not demonstrate any enlarged lymph nodes or hepatosplenomegaly in favor of lymphoma or Castleman disease. Schirmer’s test came back positive and a minor salivary gland biopsy depicted lymphocytic sialadenitis with a Chisholm and Mason score of 4 (Figure 1e, f). Electromyography results showed inflammatory polyradiculoneuritis in C6 and C7. A gastric emptying scan was consistent with gastroparesis. Moreover, immunohistochemistry results of the kidney biopsy also came back negative for human herpesvirus 8 (HHV8) antibody. The absence of the typical histological signs, as well as HHV8 negativity and normal PET-FDG ruled out Castleman disease. Our patient presented primary Sjögren’s syndrome with complex systemic manifestations, including renal, hematological (lymphoproliferative syndrome), neurological (polyradiculoneuritis and gastroparesis) and articular disease. The patient was treated with

Plasmacytosis and nephrotic syndrome revealing Sjögren’s syndrome