Abstract

GONCALVES, Hernani et al. Rhupus syndrome: a case report and literature review. Port J Nephrol Hypert [online]. 2014, vol.28, n.3, pp.254-259. ISSN 0872-0169.

The authors describe the case of a 30-year-old female patient with polyarticular juvenile rheumatoid arthritis, who presented with an upper respiratory infection, vomiting and diarrhoea, followed by lower limb and facial oedema and oliguric renal failure. She was admitted to the Nephrology ward of the Centro Hospitalar do Médio Tejo for clinical stabilization and aetiological study. Complementary tests, including immunological study and renal biopsy, led to the diagnosis of Lupus nephritis with rapidly progressive glomerulonephritis. The authors present a brief revision of ‘systemic lupus erythematosus’ and of the pathological entity that associates characteristics of ‘lupus’ and ‘rheumatoid arthritis’, known as “rhupus”, that still remains controversial nowadays.

Keywords : Haemodialysis; immunosuppression; lupus nephritis; rheumatoid arthritis; rhupus; systemic lupus erythematosus.

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