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A 5-year-old girl presented to the emergency room with history of dark-colored urine for 2 days. There was history of intermittent low-grade fever and cough for the past 1 week. She had an erythematous reticular rash on the abdomen, noticed on the day of presentation. She has had decreased energy. There was no history of edema, no joint pain or swelling, and no noticeable decrease in urine output. There was no history of hemoptysis.
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Bagga, A., Menon, S. (2019). Rapidly Progressive Glomerulonephritis. In: Sethi, S., Raina, R., McCulloch, M., Bunchman, T. (eds) Critical Care Pediatric Nephrology and Dialysis: A Practical Handbook. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-13-2276-1_16
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