Systemic lupus erythematosus in a patient whose younger sister had allergic granulomatous angitis

Tohoku J Exp Med. 1997 Jul;182(3):253-8. doi: 10.1620/tjem.182.253.

Abstract

A 37-year-old woman visited to our hospital due to general edema. The patient was diagnosed as having systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE) associated with chronic glomerulonephritis, which developed into chronic renal failure and was treated with regular hemodialysis. The patient's younger sister had been followed in our outpatient's clinic because of allergic granulomatous angitis (AGA). The sibling's common histocompatibility leukocyte antigens (HLA) were A24(9), B52(5), and DR2.

Publication types

  • Case Reports

MeSH terms

  • Adult
  • Churg-Strauss Syndrome / diagnosis
  • Churg-Strauss Syndrome / genetics*
  • Churg-Strauss Syndrome / pathology
  • Fatal Outcome
  • Female
  • HLA-A Antigens / genetics
  • HLA-A24 Antigen
  • HLA-B Antigens / genetics
  • HLA-B52 Antigen
  • HLA-DR2 Antigen / genetics
  • Humans
  • Lupus Erythematosus, Systemic / diagnosis
  • Lupus Erythematosus, Systemic / genetics*
  • Lupus Erythematosus, Systemic / pathology
  • Sibling Relations

Substances

  • HLA-A Antigens
  • HLA-A24 Antigen
  • HLA-B Antigens
  • HLA-B52 Antigen
  • HLA-DR2 Antigen