The Turkish Journal of Pediatrics 2014 , Vol 56 , Num 6
Crescentic Glomerulonephritis in a Child with Heiner Syndrome
Divisions of 1Pediatric Nephrology and 2Pediatric Allergy and Immunology and 3Department of Pathology, Çukurova University Faculty of Medicine, Adana, Turkey. E mail: drsyavuz@gmail.com Heiner syndrome is a food-induced pulmonary hypersensitivity disease that predominantly affects infants. Chronic respiratory symptoms with pulmonary infiltrates on radiography, positive milk precipitins and resolution of findings upon removal of cow’s milk constitute the main features. Severe cases may present with pulmonary hemosiderosis. Few renal manifestations associated with this syndrome have been reported so far. Here we report the first case of Heiner syndrome complicated by crescentic glomerulonephritis after 5 years of follow-up. Keywords : crescentic glomerulonephritis, pulmonary hemorrhage, milk allergy, Heiner syndrome.
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