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NDT Plus Advance Access published online on July 4, 2008
NDT Plus, doi:10.1093/ndtplus/sfn100
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© The Author [2008]. Published by Oxford University Press on behalf of ERA-EDTA. All rights reserved. For Permissions, please email: journals.permissions@oxfordjournals.org

Collapsing glomerulopathy presenting as the initial manifestation of systemic lupus erythematosus

Ravi K. Mallavarapu, Sitharam C. Nandigam and Stanley T. Peskoe

Department of Internal Medicine, Mercer University School of Medicine, Macon, GA 31201, USA

Correspondence: Ravi K. Mallavarapu, Department of Internal Medicine, Mercer University School of Medicine, 707 Pine Street, Macon, GA 31207, USA. Tel: +1-706-888-3095; Fax: (478)-301 5825; E-mail: snehabeach@gmail.com

Key Words: collapsing glomerulonephritis • renal biopsy • systemic lupus erythematosus

Received for publication May 6, 2008. Accepted for publication June 18, 2008.

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A 48-year-old African American female with a history of essential hypertension presented with fatigue of several weeks’ duration. Her only home medication was amlodipine. The patient denied illicit drug use. Apart from a purplish malar rash, physical examination was noncontributory. The patient . . . [Full Text of this Article]


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