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Case Report

J Korean Pediatr Soc. 1980;23(7):567-571. Published online July 15, 1980.

Second Attack of Acute Poststreptococcal Glomerlonephritis ; Report of Two Cases.

Sang Hak Park¹, Pyung Kil Kim¹, Tae Jung Kwon², In Joon Choi²

¹Department of Pediatrics, Yonsei University College of Medicine, Seoul, Korea.
²Department of Pathology, Yonsei University College of Medicine, Seoul, Korea.

Abstract

Recurrent or a second attack of acute poststreptococcal glomerulonephritis have been known to be extremely rare. Acute exacerbation in chronic glomerulonephritis and recurrence of acute poststeptococcal glomerulonephritis would be distinguishable clearly by histopathological, immuno-fluorescent and electron microscopic studies from renal biopsy material. Recently we dealt with two cases of a second attack of APSGN in a 9 year old girl and a 12 year old boy and reviewed the literature and the possible mechanism is discussed.

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