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CEN CASE REPORTS
Volume 11, Issue 1, Pages 90-96Publisher
SPRINGER JAPAN KK
DOI: 10.1007/s13730-021-00635-5
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Small vasculitis; Nephritis-associated plasmin receptor (NAPlr); Plasmin activity; Infection-related glomerulonephritis (IRGN)
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A 75-year-old man presented with fever, alveolar hemorrhage, and renal dysfunction. Treatment with corticosteroids improved symptoms, but relapse occurred after discontinuation, along with mononeuritis multiplex. Renal biopsy revealed crescentic glomerulonephritis with C3 deposits, suggesting systemic small vessel vasculitis.
A 75-year-old man with fever was diagnosed with alveolar hemorrhage. Antineutrophil cytoplasmic antibodies for myeloperoxidase and proteinase 3 were absent. He received corticosteroid therapy, which immediately improved his symptoms and chest radiological findings. After the discontinuation of corticosteroids, fever and general fatigue relapsed, and renal function deteriorated with hematuria and proteinuria. A nerve conduction study revealed mononeuritis multiplex. Renal biopsy demonstrated focal necrotizing crescentic glomerulonephritis with endocapillary proliferative lesions, immunofluorescence C3 deposits, and electron-microscopic subepithelial hump-like deposits. Nephritis-associated plasmin receptor (NAPlr) and plasmin activity, biomarkers of infection-related glomerulonephritis, were positive in glomeruli. Although pathological findings suggested infection-related glomerulonephritis (IRGN), clinical manifestations, such as alveolar hemorrhage and mononeuritis multiplex, suggested systemic small vessel vasculitis. After corticosteroid therapy, systemic symptoms disappeared, and the gradual amelioration of hematuria and proteinuria was observed. Based on the clinical symptoms for which steroid therapy was effective, the patient was considered to have systemic small vessel vasculitis, the etiology of which may have been associated with infection.
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