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Crescentic glomerulonephritis (CGN) is a clinicopathologic entity which is characterized by severe renal dysfunction of rapid onset with glomerular crescents. Type III CGN is associated with the absence of glomerular immune complex deposition (pauci-immune) and is associated with antineutrophil cytoplasmic antibody (ANCA). Microscopic polyangiitis and idiopathic pauci-immune necrotizing glomerulonephritis (NCGN) are strongly associated with ANCA directed against myeloperoxidase (anti-MPO). We describe here an unusual pediatric patient with MPO-ANCA-associated rapidly progressive glomerulonephritis (RPGN), emphasizing the management and outcome of the disease.
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Besbas, N., Ozaltin, F., Tınaztepe, K. et al. Successful renal transplantation in a child with ANCA-associated microscopic polyangiitis. Pediatr Nephrol 18, 696–699 (2003). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00467-003-1114-4
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