Poststreptococcal glomerulonephritis: a rare complication in pregnancy
Shepherd, J.; Shepherd, C.
Journal of Family Practice 34(5): 625; 630-632
1992
ISSN/ISBN: 0094-3509 PMID: 1578215 Document Number: 397632
Streptococcus pyogenes rarely causes glomerulonephritis in pregnant women. The family physician must consider this nonsuppurative cause, however, in the differential diagnosis of a pregnant patient with edema, abnormal urinalysis, and declining renal function, as this case study demonstrates.
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