A case of chronic renal failure followed by cold agglutinin due to Mycoplasma pneumoniae infection.
A case of chronic renal failure followed by cold agglutinin due to Mycoplasma pneumoniae infection.
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肺炎支原体感染导致慢性肾功能衰竭并发冷凝集素一例。
作者:
T. Shibasaki;H. Gomi;I. Ohno;F. Ishimoto;O. Sakai
Toshiaki Shibasaki, MD, Second Department of Internal Medicine, The Jikei University School of Medicine, 3-25-8 NishiShinbashi, Minato-ku, Tokyo 105 (Japan) Dear Sir, It is well known that cold agglutinin may be induced by the effect of autoimmune mechanisms [1, 2], and then hemoglobinuria and skin pain caused by disorders of the peripheral capillaries but in frequently hemolytic anemia are observed associated with cold sensitization [3]. There are three kinds of antigens against agglutinin such as I, i and Pr located on the surface of erythrocytes [4, 5], and hemolysis is induced by the activation of binding to the complement. Cold agglutinin might be formed in various diseases [6, 7] such as idiopathic, malignant lymphoma, neoplasms, and infections [8, 9] mainly such as Mycoplasma pneumoniae, cytomegalovirus and Epstein-Barr virus. The presence of warm agglutinin antibody in the patient with chronic renal failure (CRF) has been reported earlier. However, this is the first case of the cold agglutinin associated with M. pneumoniae infection appearing in a patient with CRF derived from membranoprolifera-tive glomerulonephritis (MPGN). A 31-year-old male had been treated for MPGN at another hospital since June 1979. When he came to our department in July 1987, he only had CRF with the following data: daily urinary excretion of protein was 7–10 g and the serum creatinine was 4.8 mg/dl. In January 1988, he complained of a sore throat, general malaise, cough, fever (37–38 °C) and the exacerbation of azotemia, and so he was admitted for further examinations. On admission, he had a body temperature of 37.1 °C, blood pressure of 164/90 mm Hg, and the presence of a heart murmur and moist rales in his chest were observed. Regarding, laboratory data, there existed marked anemia such as RBC 140 × lOVmm3, hemoglobin 5.5 g/dl and hematocrit 15.3%, but haptoglobin 112 mg/dl, serum Fe 80 μg/dl, and sugar water and Ham tests were within normal limits. Daily excretion of proteinuria was 15.8 g and serum total protein was decreased to 5.6 g/dl. Marked metabolic acidosis was observed including pH 7.30 and HCOi 14.3 mmol/l, and marked renal dysfunction shown as blood urea nitrogen 78 mg/dl and serum creatinine 12.3 mg/dl. For serological and immunological data, the titer of cold agglutinin showed 2,048 × at a temperature of 15 °C in vitro and Coombs tests were positive. The serum titer against various infections was only