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Adult, Humans, Kidney, Kidney Diseases, Kidney Failure, Acute, Male, Sarcoidosis, Science & Technology, Life Sciences & Biomedicine, Urology & Nephrology, Acute Kidney Injury

Abstract:

We report an unusual case of sarcoidosis remarkable for: 1) The presentation as acute irreversible renal failure with interstitial granulomas and ischemic glomerular lesions. This leads to a discussion of the possibility of perivascular granulomas or the existence of a vasculitis. 2) The unusual localisation of other lesions in the stomach and cutaneous tissues with a necrotising epidermal vasculitis, unusual in sarcoidosis. 3) The existence, in the patient's mother, of nasal mucosal sarcoidosis and also a carrier of the B8 and DR3 antigens.