Renal-limited vasculitis with elevated levels of multiple antibodies.

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Department of Nephrology, Graduate School of Medicine, Kyoto University, 54 Shogoin Kawahara-cho, Sakyo, Kyoto, 606-8507, Japan.

Published: May 2017

Renal-limited vasculitis (RLV) is a type of anti-neutrophil cytoplasmic antibody (ANCA)-associated vasculitis that presents with crescentic glomerulonephritis with no other organ involvement. Although several studies reported patients with crescentic glomerulonephritis who were dual positive for proteinase 3 (PR3)-ANCA and myeloperoxidase (MPO)-ANCA or ANCA and anti-glomerular basement membrane (GBM) antibody, patients positive for all three antibodies, i.e., triple-positive patients, were rarely reported. We herein report the case of a male with pauci-immune type crescentic glomerulonephritis positive for MPO-ANCA, PR3-ANCA, and anti-GBM antibody. Renal biopsy led to the definitive diagnosis of RLV with pauci-immune-type crescentic glomerulonephritis. Fluorescence immunostaining showed no linear deposition of IgG on GBM, indicating no involvement of anti-GBM associated diseases. Intensive therapy, including prednisolone, plasma exchange, and intravenous cyclophosphamide, was effective. We report the case of triple-positive patient with crescentic glomerulonephritis, who was successfully treated with glucocorticoid, plasma exchange, and cyclophosphamide, suggesting that treatment for RLV in the patient with serological triple antibodies positivity in the absence of linear IgG deposition could benefit from the combination therapy regimen for plasma exchange and primary induction of remission against microscopic polyangiitis.

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