Bullous pemphigoid associated with acute glomerulonephritis

✍ Scribed by Barnadas; GelpÍ; Rocamora; BarÓ; BallarÍN; Nadal; Bielsa; ARÓstegui; Alomar

• Book ID: 104458697
• Publisher: John Wiley and Sons
• Year: 1998
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 366 KB
• Volume: 138
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0007-0963
• DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-2133.1998.02227.x

✦ Synopsis

We report an 82-year-old man who presented with bullous pemphigoid and who later developed an acute glomerulonephritis with the histopathological and immunofluorescence pattern of a postinfectious glomerulonephritis. Antibodies directed against 230 and 180 kDa bullous pemphigoid antigens were detected in the patient's serum by means of the immunoprecipitation technique. Staphylococcus aureus and methicillin-resistant S. aureus were isolated from the patient's skin. We consider that in this particular patient the cutaneous infection played a part in the development of the kidney complication.