Acute Kidney injury + abdominal pain + palpable purpura = ?
Child with sore throat, runny nose, cough → 1 week later → muscle aches , red purple rash over arms, buttocks and legs →one month later → fatigue and hematuria = ?
Answer
Henoch–Schönlein purpura (HSP)
HSP represents with
palpable purpura,
diffuse abdominal pain,
arthritis,
arthralgia,
hematuria,
and/or proteinuria.
HSP can also represent as glomerulonephritis.
HSP glomerulonephritis is characterized by immunoglobulin A (IgA) deposition
HSP usually precedes an infection, such as a throat infection.
HSP is a systemic vasculitis (inflammation of blood vessels) and is characterized by deposition of immune complexes containing the antibody immunoglobulin A (IgA).
Treatment
symptom control
resolves on its own
