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Year : 2013 | Volume
: 23
| Issue : 2 | Page : 143-145 |
Hepatitis C as a potential cause of IgA nephropathy
AK Dey1, A Bhattacharya1, A Majumdar2
1 Department of Medicine, Advanced Medicare and Research Institute, Kolkata, India 2 Department of Nephrology, Advanced Medicare and Research Institute, Kolkata, India
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DOI: 10.4103/0971-4065.109443
This is a case report of a 16-year-old boy presenting with a history of oliguria and anasarca. Workup revealed marked proteinuria to the tune of 8 g/day. He was subsequently found to be hepatitis C positive. Genotype was hepatitis C virus type 6. Renal biopsy revealed mesangioproliferative glomerulonephritis with IgA deposits consistent with IgA nephropathy (IgAN). Initiation of oral ribavirin and pegylated interferon caused a marked reduction in proteinuria after 8 weeks of treatment. It was postulated that hepatitis C manifested as IgAN. This case report thus sheds light on the possibility of an association between hepatitis C and IgAN.
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