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Membranous glomerulonephritis in a patient with syphilis
Glomerulonefritis membranosa en un paciente con sífilis
M.T.. Mora Moraa, M.S.. Gallego Domíngueza, M.I.. Castellano Cerviñoa, R.. Novillo Santanaa, J.R.. Gómez-Martino Arroyoa
a Sección de Nefrología, Hospital San Pedro de Alcántara, Cáceres
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including the age of the patient&#44; history of exposure to medicines or toxic substances&#44; serological tests and suspected neoplasias which are linked to the pathology&#44; is required&#46;</p><p class="elsevierStylePara">The importance of serological tests lies in their ability to confirm the diagnosis&#46; In the case of syphilis screening&#44; non-treponemal tests are performed&#58; the VDRL &#40;Venereal Disease Research Laboratory&#41; and RPR &#40;rapid plasma reagin&#41; tests&#46; If the results are positive&#44; the more specific treponemal tests are performed to confirm the diagnosis&#58; FTA-ABS &#40;absorption of fluorescent antibodies by Treponema&#41; and MHA-TP &#40;Treponema pallidum microhaemagglutination&#41;&#46; They must be repeated three and six months later to ensure the response to treatment&#46;</p><p class="elsevierStylePara">The case which concerns us is relevant&#44; owing to the small number of publications on the association between syphilis and MGN&#46;</p><p class="elsevierStylePara">The patient was a 27-year-old&#44; white&#44; Caucasian male with a history of cryptorchidism&#44; adenoidectomy and amygdalectomy in childhood&#46; He was an active smoker&#44; a social drinker and a homosexual&#46; Two months before being assessed by our department and&#44; coinciding with a slight pharyngodynia&#44; an induration had appeared in the patient&#8217;s right groin&#44; as well as ulcerated serpiginous lesions on the penis and a whitish urethral discharge&#44; which was initially treated with azithromycin&#46; While waiting for the serological results&#44; maculo-papular lesions were observed in the surrounding area on the thighs and trunk&#46; They spread to the patient&#8217;s feet and hands&#44; progressing through different phases with no signs of fever&#44; and accompanied by oedema of the lower limbs and genitals&#44; with a slight increase in the abdominal perimeter and a decrease in diuresis&#44; which is why the case was reported to us&#46; The patient&#8217;s urine was normal in colour&#44; with no evidence of dysuria or blood in the urine&#46; Blood pressure &#40;BP&#41; was within normal limits&#46;</p><p class="elsevierStylePara">The analytical findings of note were as follows&#58; urea&#58; 61mg&#47;dl&#59; creatinine&#58; 1&#46;73mg&#47;dl&#59; normal ions&#59; total protein&#58; 4&#46;4g&#47;dl&#59; albumin&#58; 1&#46;8g&#47;dl&#59; total cholesterol&#58; 295mg&#47;dl&#44; HDL&#58; 61mg&#47;dl&#44; LDL&#58; 206mg&#47;dl&#44; triglycerides&#58; 140mg&#47;dl and normal hepatic enzyme levels&#46; Significant findings in the urine analysis included proteinuria&#58; 13&#46;4g at 24h&#44; 250 red blood cells per microlitre and a negative leukocyte count&#46; The haemogram and coagulation were normal&#44; except for an FTP of 762g&#47;l&#46; Autoimmunity assays&#58; antinuclear antibodies &#40;ANA&#41; and anti-neutrophil cytoplasmic antibodies &#40;ANCA&#41; negative&#59; complement and protein tests were normal&#46; Serology tests for hepatitis B &#40;HBV&#41;&#44; hepatitis C &#40;HCV&#41; and human immunodeficiency &#40;HIV&#41; viruses were negative&#46; Positive 1&#47;32 titre RPR &#40;rapid plasma reagin&#41; and FTA &#40;anti-Treponema antibody&#41; results&#46;</p><p class="elsevierStylePara">Renal ultrasound showed the kidneys to be normal in size&#46; The echocardiogram was within normal limits and no lung parenchyma changes were detected in the chest X-ray&#46;</p><p class="elsevierStylePara">Given that the data indicated a nephrotic syndrome&#44; a renal biopsy was performed and 13 glomeruli were counted&#46; They were very slightly enlarged with permeable capillary lumens and no mesangial proliferation or associated inflammatory component&#46; When Masson&#8217;s trichrome procedure was used&#44; frequent fuchsin-stained deposits were observed on the subepithelial side of the capillary walls&#46; With methenamine silver no spikes were recognised&#46; There was no increase in fibrous tissue in the interstitium&#46; There were areas of chronic inflammatory infiltration&#44; predominantly containing dispersedly distributed lymphocytes and eosinophils&#44; located around the glomerulus&#46; The tubules contained occasional hyaline cylinders and haematic material&#46; The blood vessels were normal&#46; Immunofluorescence revealed intense granular IgG deposits on the capillary walls and non-specific traces of IgM&#46; Anatomopathological diagnosis&#58; stage 1 MGN&#46;</p><p class="elsevierStylePara">Treatment was initiated by administering 2&#46;4 million units of intramuscular penicillin G benzathine&#44; intravenous diuretics&#44; and anti-thrombotic and lipid &#40;cholesterol&#41;-lowering prophylactic drugs&#46;</p><p class="elsevierStylePara">The patient responded favourably and blood volume and renal function returned to normal values &#40;urea 43mg&#47;dl&#44; creatinine 1&#46;28mg&#47;dl&#41; with a clearance rate of 85ml&#47;min&#47;1&#46;73m<span class="elsevierStyleSup">2</span>&#46; At a check-up the following month the proteinuria had disappeared&#46; 1&#47;2 titre RPR values were obtained at three months and they were negative at six months&#46;</p><p class="elsevierStylePara">Syphilis is a sexually transmitted disease &#40;STD&#41; which is caused by a spirochete called T&#46; Pallidum&#46; It can be transmitted by sexual contact &#40;the most common form of transmission&#41;&#44; congenitally via the placenta&#44; or as a result of an infected blood transfusion or accidental inoculation&#46; It is known as &#39;the great simulator&#39;&#44; owing to its range of clinical presentations&#46;<span class="elsevierStyleSup">3</span> Primary syphilis manifests as an ulcerated lesion or chancre&#44; which appears two-six weeks after infection&#46; Secondary syphilis is the result of its dissemination via the blood or lymph and its symptoms are highly varied&#46; Tertiary syphilis appears months or years after infection if it has not been properly treated&#46;</p><p class="elsevierStylePara">In developed countries&#44; largely due to the discovery of penicillin&#44; syphilis was practically wiped out in the 1950s&#46;<span class="elsevierStyleSup">4</span> In the 1980s&#44; owing to the concern about the AIDS epidemic&#44; sexual behaviour changed and an even greater decrease in its incidence was observed&#46; In recent years we have been witnessing a resurgence of this disease in Spain&#44; with an increase in its incidence from 2&#46;57 cases per 100 000 inhabitants in 1995 to 5&#46;70 per 100 000 in 2008&#44;<span class="elsevierStyleSup">5</span> and this is also happening in other European countries and the United States&#46; The new cases occur predominantly in young homosexual men and a large proportion of them present coinfection with HIV &#40;20&#37;-70&#37;&#44; depending on the area in question&#41;&#46;<span class="elsevierStyleSup">6</span> Perhaps this is due to a relaxation in sexual behaviour as a result of a reduction in protective measures following the appearance of highly active antiretroviral therapy &#40;HAART&#41; against HIV&#46;<span class="elsevierStyleSup">4-7 </span></p><p class="elsevierStylePara">Although the association between syphilis and renal disease has been known for over 100 years&#44;<span class="elsevierStyleSup">8</span> there are few cases reported in Spain in reviews on the subject&#44; which makes diagnosis more difficult&#44; as it is seldom suspected in clinical practice&#46;</p><p class="elsevierStylePara">Syphilis can cause a wide variety of clinical and pathological forms of renal disease&#46; In addition to MGN&#44; rapidly progressive GN&#44; diffuse endocapillary GN with or without extracapillary formation or minimal change GN have been described&#46;<span class="elsevierStyleSup">8</span> Proteinuria is the most common clinical manifestation&#46; The definitive diagnosis is confirmed by renal biopsy&#46;</p><p class="elsevierStylePara">It is important to know the age of the patient and to obtain a detailed clinical history when dealing with nephrotic syndrome&#46; Although it is more common for MGN to be associated with HBV than syphilis&#44; we must not forget that&#44; in the battery of serological tests requested in a case of nephrotic syndrome&#44; diagnostic tests for syphilis should be included&#44; more so knowing that there has been a substantial increase in the number of cases in Spain in recent years&#46;</p><p class="elsevierStylePara">In our case&#44; the patient had been diagnosed with syphilis before and its association with nephropathy facilitated the aetiological diagnosis of MGN&#46; After starting specific treatment &#40;penicillin G benzathine&#41; to eliminate the triggering factor&#44; the nephrotic syndrome remitted&#46;</p><p class="elsevierStylePara">This experience has made us see that it is of vital importance to conduct a detailed assessment when dealing with a case of nephrotic syndrome&#46; Once we have an exact result and diagnosis&#44; this will enable us to adopt an economic&#44; effective and&#44; above all&#44; curative approach&#46;</p>"
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