Hansen's disease with lepra reaction presenting with IgA dominant infection related glomerulonephritis

• Main Authors: Elayaperumal Indhumathi, Jeyachandran Dhanapriya, Thanigachalam Dineshkumar, Ramanathan Sakthirajan, Natarajan Gopalakrishnan
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: Wolters Kluwer Medknow Publications 2020-01-01
• Series: Indian Journal of Pathology and Microbiology
• Subjects: hansen's disease; iga dominant irgn; lepra reaction; staphylococcus aureus
• Online Access: http://www.ijpmonline.org/article.asp?issn=0377-4929;year=2020;volume=63;issue=2;spage=289;epage=291;aulast=Indhumathi
• ISSN: 0377-4929

Various renal abnormalities in leprosy have been described largely in literature but the occurrence of IgA dominant infection related glomerulonephritis in leprosy with type 2 lepra reaction has not been reported so far. We present here a 60-year-old man with a history of leprosy in the past admitted with type 2 lepra reaction, rapidly progressive glomerulonephritis with severe renal failure requiring dialysis and diagnosed to have IgA dominant infection related glomerulonephritis.