AKI in an HIV patient

J Am Soc Nephrol. 2013 Jul;24(8):1204-8. doi: 10.1681/ASN.2012070665. Epub 2013 Apr 4.

Abstract

The renal manifestations of patients infected with HIV are diverse. Patients may have podocytopathies ranging from a minimal-change-type lesions to FSGS or collapsing glomerulopathy. Furthermore, such patients produce a variety of autoantibodies without clinical signs of the disease. Antiretroviral drugs also cause renal injury, including crystals and tubular injury, acute interstitial nephritis, or mitochondrial toxicity. In these circumstances, it is essential to perform a renal biopsy for diagnosis and to guide treatment. Here we describe a patient with HIV who presented with AKI and hematuria without concomitant systemic manifestations. Renal biopsy elucidated the cause of acute deterioration of kidney function.

Publication types

  • Case Reports

MeSH terms

  • Acute Kidney Injury / pathology*
  • Acute Kidney Injury / virology*
  • Adult
  • Autoantibodies / analysis
  • Glomerular Basement Membrane / pathology*
  • HIV Infections / complications*
  • HIV Infections / pathology*
  • Humans
  • Male

Substances

  • Autoantibodies
  • antiglomerular basement membrane antibody