The renal manifestations of patients infected withHIV are diverse. Patientsmay have podocytopathies ranging fromaminimal-change-type lesions to FSGS or collapsing glomerulopathy. Furthermore, such patients produce a variety of autoantibodies without clinical signs of the disease. Antiretroviral drugs also cause renal injury, including crystals and tubular injury, acute interstitial nephritis, or mitochondrial toxicity. In these circumstances, it is essential to performa renal biopsy for diagnosis and to guide treatment. Here we describe a patient with HIV who presented with AKI and hematuria without concomitant systemic manifestations. Renal biopsy elucidated the cause of acute deterioration of kidney function. Copyright © 2013 by the American Society of Nephrology.
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Hartle, P. M., Carlo, M. E., Dwyer, J. P., & Fogo, A. B. (2013). AKI in an HIV patient. Journal of the American Society of Nephrology, 24(8), 1204–1208. https://doi.org/10.1681/ASN.2012070665
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