Crescentic Glomerulonephritis associated with gastric adenocarcinoma
Dussol, B.; Berland, Y.; Casanova, P.
Nephrologie 13(4): 163-165
1992
ISSN/ISBN: 0250-4960 PMID: 1407257 Document Number: 391540
The association of membranous glomerulonephritis with carcinoma and minimal change disease with Hogkin's disease are well established. In contrast cancer and crescentic glomerulonephritis is an uncommon association. We report a patient with gastric carcinoma who developed synchronously acute renal failure due to crescentic glomerulonephritis. Corticosteroid therapy, plasma exchanges and tumor resection was associated with a regression of renal failure. Carcinoma must be considered as a possible cause of crescentic glomerulonephritis.