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

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 admitte...

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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
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Online Access:http://www.ijpmonline.org/article.asp?issn=0377-4929;year=2020;volume=63;issue=2;spage=289;epage=291;aulast=Indhumathi
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spelling doaj-0eddd0099abd4ae8a20ed6ba850558dc2020-11-25T03:28:33ZengWolters Kluwer Medknow PublicationsIndian Journal of Pathology and Microbiology0377-49292020-01-0163228929110.4103/IJPM.IJPM_654_17Hansen's disease with lepra reaction presenting with IgA dominant infection related glomerulonephritisElayaperumal IndhumathiJeyachandran DhanapriyaThanigachalam DineshkumarRamanathan SakthirajanNatarajan GopalakrishnanVarious 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.http://www.ijpmonline.org/article.asp?issn=0377-4929;year=2020;volume=63;issue=2;spage=289;epage=291;aulast=Indhumathihansen's diseaseiga dominant irgnlepra reactionstaphylococcus aureus
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author Elayaperumal Indhumathi
Jeyachandran Dhanapriya
Thanigachalam Dineshkumar
Ramanathan Sakthirajan
Natarajan Gopalakrishnan
spellingShingle Elayaperumal Indhumathi
Jeyachandran Dhanapriya
Thanigachalam Dineshkumar
Ramanathan Sakthirajan
Natarajan Gopalakrishnan
Hansen's disease with lepra reaction presenting with IgA dominant infection related glomerulonephritis
Indian Journal of Pathology and Microbiology
hansen's disease
iga dominant irgn
lepra reaction
staphylococcus aureus
author_facet Elayaperumal Indhumathi
Jeyachandran Dhanapriya
Thanigachalam Dineshkumar
Ramanathan Sakthirajan
Natarajan Gopalakrishnan
author_sort Elayaperumal Indhumathi
title Hansen's disease with lepra reaction presenting with IgA dominant infection related glomerulonephritis
title_short Hansen's disease with lepra reaction presenting with IgA dominant infection related glomerulonephritis
title_full Hansen's disease with lepra reaction presenting with IgA dominant infection related glomerulonephritis
title_fullStr Hansen's disease with lepra reaction presenting with IgA dominant infection related glomerulonephritis
title_full_unstemmed Hansen's disease with lepra reaction presenting with IgA dominant infection related glomerulonephritis
title_sort hansen's disease with lepra reaction presenting with iga dominant infection related glomerulonephritis
publisher Wolters Kluwer Medknow Publications
series Indian Journal of Pathology and Microbiology
issn 0377-4929
publishDate 2020-01-01
description 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.
topic hansen's disease
iga dominant irgn
lepra reaction
staphylococcus aureus
url http://www.ijpmonline.org/article.asp?issn=0377-4929;year=2020;volume=63;issue=2;spage=289;epage=291;aulast=Indhumathi
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