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| Year : 2018 |
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Immune complex-mediated rapidly progressive glomerulonephritis in a patient with family history of systemic lupus erythematosus
Ahmad Alflaiw1, Ghormallah Alghamdi1, Khalid Alsaad2, Noura Aloudah3
1 Department of Medicine, King Abdulaziz Medical City, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia
2 Department of Pathology, King Faisal Specialist Hospital, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia
3 Department of Pathology, King Abdulaziz Medical City, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia
Correspondence Address:
Dr. Ahmad Alflaiw
Department of Medicine, King Abdulaziz Medical City, P. O. Box 22490, Riyadh 11426
Saudi Arabia
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DOI: 10.4103/1319-2442.243949 PMID: 30381526 
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We describe here a case of a 53-year-old Saudi female who presented to the emergency room with shortness of breath progressive in nature for the previous one month, associated with a cough and occasional greenish sputum. She turned out to be a case of immunocomplex mediated glomerulonephritis presenting as rapidly progressive glomerulonephritis in a female patient with a history of systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE) in her daughter. |
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