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Rapidly Progressive Glomerulonephritis

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A 5-year-old girl presented to the emergency room with history of dark-colored urine for 2 days. There was history of intermittent low-grade fever and cough for the past 1 week. She had an erythematous reticular rash on the abdomen, noticed on the day of presentation. She has had decreased energy. There was no history of edema, no joint pain or swelling, and no noticeable decrease in urine output. There was no history of hemoptysis.

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  1. Division of Nephrology, ICMR Advanced Center for Research in Nephrology, All India Institute of Medical Sciences, New Delhi, India

    Arvind Bagga

  2. Division of Nephrology, Seattle Children’s Hospital, University of Washington School of Medicine, Seattle, WA, USA

    Shina Menon

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  1. Kidney & Urology Institute, Medanta, The Medicity Kidney & Urology Institute, Gurugram, Haryana, India

    Sidharth Kumar Sethi

  2. Department of Nephrology, Cleveland Clinic Akron General Medical center and Akron Children’s Hospital, Akron, OH, USA

    Rupesh Raina

  3. Red Cross War Memorial Children’s Hospital, University of Cape Town, Cape Town, South Africa

    Mignon McCulloch

  4. Pediatric Nephrology, Children’s Hospital of Richmond at the Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, VA, USA

    Timothy E. Bunchman

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Bagga, A., Menon, S. (2019). Rapidly Progressive Glomerulonephritis. In: Sethi, S., Raina, R., McCulloch, M., Bunchman, T. (eds) Critical Care Pediatric Nephrology and Dialysis: A Practical Handbook. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-13-2276-1_16

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