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Rio Kimura1, Naoki Matsuzawa, Yoshihiro Arimura
1First Department of Internal Medicine, Kyorin University School of Medicine, Tokyo, Japan. rio@ac.catv.ne.jp
Abstract:
An 80-year-old woman who had rapidly progressive glomerulonephritis unaccompanied by systemic vasculitis is described. On renal biopsy, she showed necrotizing crescentic glomerulonephritis by light microscopy and pauci-immune glomerular lesions by immunofluorescent study. No dense deposits were present on electronmicroscopic study. On serum examination, indirect immunofluorescent study showed perinuclear pattern antineutrophil cytoplasmic antibody (ANCA), but myeloperoxidase-ANCA and proteinase 3-ANCA were both negative. Her serum reacted only to azurocidin excluding other ANCA antigens: bactericidal permeability-increasing protein, cathepsin G, elastase, lactoferrin, or lysozyme. Serum creatinine level decreased, and C-reactive protein turned negative after steroid therapy. Azurocidin-ANCA also turned negative. It is suggested that azurocidin-ANCA might have been related to the inflammatory process of pauci-immune necrotizing crescentic glomerulonephritis in this patient.
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