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| Year : 2016 | Volume
: 26
| Issue : 5 | Page : 376-378 |
Two consecutive recurrences of crescentic immunoglobulin A nephropathy in a renal transplant recipient
N Gopalakrishnan, S Murugananth, T Dineshkumar, J Dhanapriya, R Sakthirajan, T Balasubramaniyan
Department of Nephrology, Madras Medical College and Rajiv Gandhi Government General Hospital, Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India
Correspondence Address:
J Dhanapriya
Department of Nephrology, Madras Medical College and Rajiv Gandhi Government General Hospital, Chennai - 600 003, Tamil Nadu
India
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DOI: 10.4103/0971-4065.169565
We report a 21-year-old male who developed end-stage renal disease, probably due to immunoglobulin A nephropathy (IgAN), received a renal transplant from his mother, which was lost due to crescentic IgAN after 18 months. Two years later, he received a second transplant from a deceased donor. He developed rapidly progressive graft dysfunction 3 years later. Allograft biopsy revealed crescentic IgAN, which was successfully treated with intravenous steroids and cyclophosphamide. Recurrence of IgAN in two successive allografts in one patient has not been reported previously.
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