[Fabry's disease, glomerulonephritis with crescentic and granulomatous interstitial nephritis. Case of one family]

Abstract

A 26-year-old female patient was admitted to the hospital because of fever of unknown origin and renal failure. Diagnosis of Fabry's disease, extracapillary proliferative (crescentic) glomerulonephritis and granulomatous interstitial nephritis was made by histological, immunohistochemical and electron microscopical diagnosis in a kidney biopsy and confirmed by further investigations. Years ago the brother of the patient had a kidney biopsy diagnosed as metabolic disease. The re-evaluation of this biopsy confirmed Fabry's disease while in this patient an association with tubulointerstitial nephritis occurred. To our knowledge this is the first family with two members having Fabry's disease combined with further kidney diseases.