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Immune complex glomerulonephritis secondary to tuberculosis

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A 63 year old man with pulmonary tuberculosis developed nephrotic syndrome secondary to immune complex nephritis. The nephrotic syndrome and renal lesion resolved with standard chemotherapy.

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  1. Department of Renal Diseases, Meath Hospital, Dublin

    A. A. J. O’Brien & J. A. B. Keogh

  2. Department of Medicine, Peamount Hospital, Dublin

    P. Kelly & L. Clancy

  3. Department of Histopathology, St. James’s Hospital, Dublin

    E. F. Gaffney

  4. Department of Renal Diseases, Meath Hospital, Heytesbury St., Dublin 8

    J. A. Brian Keogh

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O’Brien, A.A.J., Kelly, P., Gaffney, E.F. et al. Immune complex glomerulonephritis secondary to tuberculosis. I.J.M.S. 159, 187 (1990). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02937241

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