Crescentic Glomerulonephritis Associated with Pulmonary
Tuberculosis
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Correspondence
Dr. KV Kanodia,
Professor, Department of Pathology, Lab Medicine, Transfusion Services and Immunohematology,
G.R. Doshi and K.M. Mehta Institute of Kidney Diseases & Research Centre and
Dr. H.L. Trivedi Institute of Transplantation Sciences, Civil Hospital Campus, Asarwa, Ahmedabad, India.
E-mai : kamalkanodia@yahoo.com
Tuberculosis of kidney and urinary tract is caused by members of the Mycobacterium tuberculosis complex. Kidney is usually infected by haematogenous spread of bacilli from focus of infection in the lungs. Glomerular involvement in tuberculosis presenting as a rapidly progressive glomerulonephritis is a rare entity. We report a rare case of crescentic glomerulonephritis associated with pulmonary tuberculosis in a 26-year-old man. Patient was treated with corticosteroids, haemodialysis, intravenous immunoglobulin and four cycles of plasmapheresis. He did not respond to 4-drug anti-tuberculosis treatment for renal pathology and was switched over to maintenance haemodialysis. However, he responded to pulmonary TB.