Long-Term Therapeutic Plasma Exchange to Prevent End-Stage Kidney Disease in Adult Severe Resistant Henoch-Schonlein Purpura Nephritis

A 27-year-old man presented with a palpable purpuric skin rash and joint and abdominal pain in April 2010. He had acute kidney injury and his creatinine quickly deteriorated to 687 μmol/L, with associated nephrotic range proteinuria. Kidney biopsy showed crescentic Henoch-Schonlein nephritis. He w...

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Main Authors: Patrick Hamilton, Olumide Ogundare, Ammar Raza, Arvind Ponnusamy, Julie Gorton, Hana Alachkar, Jamil Choudhury, Jonathan Barratt, Philip A. Kalra
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Hindawi Limited 2015-01-01
Series:Case Reports in Nephrology
Online Access:http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2015/269895