Publication: Anti-Glomerular Basement Membrane Disease in a 10-year-old Child: A Case Report
Date
2023
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Publisher
Nepal Medical Association
Abstract
Abstract
Anti-glomerular basement membrane disease is an extremely uncommon entity in children. It has an incidence of 0.5 to 1 per million per year in adults and is even more uncommon in children. It occurs due to autoantibody against glomerular basement membrane collagen and is characterized by rapidly progressive glomerulonephritis with or without pulmonary hemorrhage. As the literature on anti-glomerular basement membrane disease is limited from our part of the world, it is important to consider it as the rare cause of rapidly progressive glomerulonephritis as early intervention improves prognosis. We report a case of a 10-year-old male who initially presented with glomerulonephritis and later was diagnosed with anti-glomerular basement membrane disease.
Description
Md Firoz Anjum
Department of Paediatrics, Patan Academy of Health Sciences, Lagankhel, Lalitpur, Nepal
Sajal Twanabasu
Department of Paediatrics, Patan Academy of Health Sciences, Lagankhel, Lalitpur, Nepal
Sailesh Shrestha
Department of Paediatrics, Patan Academy of Health Sciences, Lagankhel, Lalitpur, Nepal
Tashi Anjuk Lama
Department of General Practice and Emergency Medicine, Patan Academy of Health Sciences, Lagankhel, Lalitpur, Nepal
Dipendra Magrati
Department of Paediatrics, Patan Academy of Health Sciences, Lagankhel, Lalitpur, Nepal
Keywords
Basement membrane, Case reports, Glomerulonephritis, MEDICINE::Dermatology and venerology,clinical genetics, internal medicine::Internal medicine::Kidney diseases