Hansen's disease with lepra reaction presenting with IgA dominant infection related glomerulonephritis | Zendy

Indhumathi Elayaperumal | Zendy; J Dhanapriya | Zendy; Thanigachalam Dineshkumar | Zendy; Ramanathan Sakthirajan | Zendy; Natarajan Gopalakrishnan | Zendy

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Hansen's disease with lepra reaction presenting with IgA dominant infection related glomerulonephritis

Author(s) -

Indhumathi Elayaperumal,

J Dhanapriya,

Thanigachalam Dineshkumar,

Ramanathan Sakthirajan,

Natarajan Gopalakrishnan

Publication year - 2020

Publication title -

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.

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