Open AccessHansen's disease with lepra reaction presenting with IgA dominant infection related glomerulonephritis
Author(s) -
Elayaperumal Indhumathi,
J Dhanapriya,
Thanigachalam Dineshkumar,
Ramanathan Sakthirajan,
Natarajan Gopalakrishnan
Publication year - 2020
Publication title -
indian journal of pathology and microbiology/indian journal of pathology and microbiology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.217
H-Index - 31
eISSN - 0974-5130
pISSN - 0377-4929
DOI - 10.4103/ijpm.ijpm_654_17
Subject(s) - leprosy , glomerulonephritis , medicine , disease , rapidly progressive glomerulonephritis , immunology , dermatology , kidney
Various renal abnormalities in leprosy have been described largely in literature but the occurrence of IgA dominant infection related glomerulonephritis in leprosy with type 2 lepra reaction has not been reported so far. We present here a 60-year-old man with a history of leprosy in the past admitted with type 2 lepra reaction, rapidly progressive glomerulonephritis with severe renal failure requiring dialysis and diagnosed to have IgA dominant infection related glomerulonephritis.