Title

Rescue Of Renal Function In A 3-Year-Old Girl With Goodpasture'S Syndrome With A Brief Review Of Literature

Keywords

acute renal failure; anti-glomerular basement membrane disease; hypertension; immunosuppression

Abstract

Goodpasture's syndrome has been documented in only a handful of children under the age of four. We describe a 3-year-old girl presenting with anaemia and renal failure whose kidney biopsy showed anti-glomerular basement membrane (GBM) disease. She was treated aggressively with pulse steroids, plasmapheresis and monthly infusions of cyclophosphamide. After months of aggressive immunosuppression, her renal function normalized, and her anti-GBM antibody disappeared. A year after the onset, she underwent a second kidney biopsy for persistent proteinuria and hypertension that surprisingly showed focal sclerosing glomerulonephritis, an unreported finding at this age. The biopsy showed deposition of antibody on the GBM despite the fact that anti-GBM antibody had normalized in the serum 5 months earlier. Mycophenolate mofetil was added to the immunosuppression at that point. At her 3-year follow-up, creatinine clearance was 88.4 mL/min/1.73 m2, proteinuria was 408 mg/day and blood pressure was controlled with enalapril 0.2 mg/kg/day. She has not had a relapse or abnormal anti-GBM antibody for 30 months, but her renal prognosis remains guarded. To our knowledge, this is the youngest patient to have a successful rescue of renal function after isolated Goodpasture's syndrome. © 2010 The Author. Published by Oxford University Press on behalf of ERA-EDTA. All rights reserved.

Publication Date

10-1-2010

Publication Title

NDT Plus

Volume

3

Issue

5

Number of Pages

483-486

Document Type

Article

Personal Identifier

scopus

DOI Link

https://doi.org/10.1093/ndtplus/sfq143

Socpus ID

77956972119 (Scopus)

Source API URL

https://api.elsevier.com/content/abstract/scopus_id/77956972119

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