All issues > Volume 35(12); 1992

Case Report

J Korean Pediatr Soc. 1992;35(12):1744-1749. Published online December 15, 1992.

A Case of Lead Nephropathy

Soon Wha SW Kim¹, Won Seup WS Kim¹, Don Hee DH Ahn¹, Keun Chan KC Sohn¹, Hyun Soon HS Lee²

¹Department of Pediatrics, National Medical Center, Seoul, Korea
²Department of Pathology, Seoul National Universty College of Medicine, Seoul, Korea

Abstract

A case of lead nephropathy is presented and recent literatures are reviewed. A 11 year old boy had been admitted to National Medical Center, with a chief complaint of gross hematuria during follow up of lead poisoning. He had a history of ingestion of herb pills medication for 6 months with his twin sibling who had been diagnosed as lead encephalopathy. Patient's kidney biopsy findings are as followings: Tublues reveal focally severe necrosis or loss, interstitium exhibits severe recent hemorrhage with fibrin deposit, focal heavy collection of polymorphonuclear neutrophils and epithelial cells reveal cytoplasmic degeneration and giant cell transformation.

Keywords :Lead, Nephropathy