All issues > Volume 35(6); 1992

Case Report

J Korean Pediatr Soc. 1992;35(6):867-872. Published online June 15, 1992.

Acute Tubular Necrosis Associated with Typhoid Fever

Sung-Yoon SY Cho¹, Kyu-Young KY Lee¹, Sung-Ho SH Cha¹, Byoung-Soo BS Cho¹, Chang-Il CI Ahn¹, So-Yeon SY Yu², Mun-Ho MH Yang², Soon-Don SD Hong³

¹Department of Pediatrics, College of Medicine, Kyung Hee University, Seoul, Korea
²Department of Anatomical Pathology, College of Medicine, Kyung Hee University, Seoul, Korea
³Department of Pediatrics, Cheoung Ju Medical Center, Choeung Ju, Korea

Abstract

Acute tubular necrosis has been rarely reported in typhoid fever. We experienced a case of acute tubular necrosis due to typhoid fever in a 5 years old male patient. The patient showed significant titer of widal reaction associated with acute renal failure. Renal boipsy finding was compatible with acute tubular necrosis and immune complex was not deposited. Clinical and urinary findings were normalized by ampicillin therapy and follow up renal biopsy also showed almost normal tubular morphology. In addition to case report, brief review of literatures were added.

Keywords :Typhoid fever, Acute tubular necrosis, Renal biopsy