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Lupus after kidney donation to an affected male relative.
Transplantation
April 2015
1 Division of Nephrology, Department of Medicine, The Ottawa Hospital, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada. 2 Kidney Research Centre, Ottawa Hospital Research Institute, University of Ottawa, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada. 3 Department of Medicine and the Department of Pathology, University of Oklahoma Health Sciences Center, Oklahoma City, OK. 4 Arthritis and Clinical Immunology Program, Oklahoma Medical Research Foundation (OMRF), Oklahoma City, OK. 5 Department of Veterans Affairs Medical Center, Oklahoma City, OK.
We report a case of lupus occurring in a 52 year-old woman approximately 2 years after donating a kidney to her brother who had end-stage-renal-disease on the basis of lupus nephritis (LN). At the time of donation, the patient had been asymptomatic with a normal physical examination, laboratory and imaging studies. At the time of her diagnosis of lupus she was found to be ANA negative but positive for anti-double stranded DNA.
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