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Ying Maggie Chen1, Luis A Marcos, Helen Liapis
1Renal Division, Washington University School of Medicine, 8126, 660 S. Euclid Ave., St. Louis, MO 63110, USA.
Abstract:
A 68-year old Caucasian male with a past medical history of human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) infection presented with acute oliguric renal failure and maculopapular rash. Renal biopsy demonstrated extensive foot process effacement as well as confluent small subepithelial electron-dense deposits, which is diagnostic of membranous glomerulonephritis. Subsequent serological tests showed venereal disease research laboratory test was positive in both serum and cerebral spinal fluid. Following penicillin treatment, the patient's creatinine returned to baseline 4 weeks later. Secondary membranous glomerulonephritis caused by syphilis in patients with HIV is discussed.
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