Alejandra Orozco Guillén, Virgilia Soto Abraham, Bernardo Moguel Gonzalez, Giorgina Barbara Piccoli, Magdalena Madero
IgA nephropathy is the most common form of primary glomerulonephritis. While associations of IgA and other glomerular diseases have been described, the association of IgA nephropathy with "primary" podocytopathy is rare and has not been reported in pregnancy, due in part to the infrequent use of kidney biopsy during pregnancy, and a frequent overlap with preeclampsia. We report the case of a 33-year-old woman with normal kidney function, referred in the 14th gestational week of her second pregnancy, due to nephrotic proteinuria and macroscopic hematuria...
February 27, 2023: Journal of Clinical Medicine