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Immune complex type crescentic glomerulonephritis and ANCA-positivity in a nine-year-old girl
Alper Soylu1, Salih Kavukçu, Canan Sule Turgut
1Department of Pediatrics, Dokuz Eylül University Faculty of Medicine, Izmir, Turkey.
The Turkish Journal of Pediatrics
|May 25, 2002
Abstract:
We report a nine-year-old girl who presented with the clinical and laboratory findings of rapidly progressive glomerulonephritis. She was found to be positive for both pANCA and cANCA. However, renal histopathology revealed immune complex type of crescentic glomerulonephritis. Thus, although testing for ANCA is an important tool in the prediction of the subtype of crescentic glomerulonephritis, a renal biopsy is still required to establish the diagnosis.