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Poststreptococcal glomerulonephritis: a rare complication in pregnancy
1Department of Family Medicine, University of Colorado, Denver 80220.
The Journal of Family Practice
|May 1, 1992
Streptococcus pyogenes rarely causes glomerulonephritis in pregnant women. The family physician must consider this nonsuppurative cause, however, in the differential diagnosis of a pregnant patient with edema, abnormal urinalysis, and declining renal function, as this case study demonstrates.
Streptococcus pyogenes rarely causes glomerulonephritis in pregnant women. The family physician must consider this nonsuppurative cause, however, in the differential diagnosis of a pregnant patient with edema, abnormal urinalysis, and declining renal function, as this case study demonstrates.