Related Experiment Videos
Glomerulonephritis in a neonate with atypical congenital lupus and toxoplasmosis
1Department of Pathology, Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons, 630 West 168 Street, New York, NY 10032, USA.
Pediatric Nephrology (Berlin, Germany)
|December 22, 1999
Abstract:
The development of glomerulonephritis as a complication of neonatal lupus or congenital toxoplasmosis is extremely rare. We report a case of membranous glomerulonephritis occurring in a neonate with toxoplasmosis and atypical congenital lupus, including high-titer antinuclear antibodies and hypocomplementemia. This case illustrates that glomerulonephritis in the neonate may be induced by passively transferred maternal antibodies.