Abstract

An otherwise healthy 20-year-old woman presented with an erythematous rash on her face as well as arthralgia and anemia. She also had systemic edema, proteinuria and hypertension. Laboratory data on admission showed hypocomplementemia, human parvovirus B19 (HPV) DNA and both immunoglobulin (Ig) M and IgG antibodies to HPV in her serum. Renal biopsy specimens showed features of endocapillary glomerulonephritis under light microscopy. Electron microscopy showed massive subendothelial electron-dense deposits. No cause was probable other than immune complex-mediated glomerulonephritis associated with HPV infection. In a review of this and similar cases reported in the literature, several characteristic features come to light: female dominance, onset in the second or third decade of life, hypocomplementemia, histologic renal endocapillary and/or mesangioproliferative glomerulonephritis with subendothelial deposits and spontaneous recovery.

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Authors

• Y. Mori
• H. Yamashita
• Y. Umeda
• Y.U. Uchiyama-Tanaka
• A. Nose
• N. Kishimoto
• Y. Kijima
• T. Nagata
• M. Mori
• H. Matsubara
• H. Yoshida
• T. Iwasaka

Departments

• ¹ Department of Medicine II, Kansai Medical University, Osaka, and<br />
• ² Department of Clinical Laboratory Medicine, Fukui Medical University,<br /> Fukui, Japan

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