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Antiglomerular basement membrane antibody-crescentic glomerulonephritis complicating chronic bronchiectasis
R Enríquez1, J B Cabezuelo, A E Sirvent
1Nephrology Section, Hospital General de Elche, Spain.
Scandinavian Journal of Urology and Nephrology
|June 20, 2001
Abstract:
A 68-year-old woman with chronic bronchiectasis presented with haematuria and severe oligoanuric renal failure with no other serious systemic manifestation. Antiglomerular basement membrane (anti-GBM) antibodies and anti-myeloperoxidase antibodies were positive. Renal biopsy revealed anti-GBM crescentic glomerulonephritis. A conservative approach was followed and the patient is stable on chronic haemodialysis 6 months later. To the authors' knowledge, there has only been one previous report of anti-GBM disease complicating bronchiectasis.