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Volume 2011, Issue 2
  • ISSN: 0253-8253
  • EISSN: 2227-0426

Abstract

This case report illustrates an acute presentation of hemoptysis in a 21-year-old man from a TB endemic region. Further clinical evaluation resulted in extensive hypercoagulability complications of nephritic syndrome due to idiopathic membranous glomerulonephritis (MGN.) This emphasizes that proteinuria seen at a subnephrotic level, or on urine dipstick in a setting where glomerular disease might not be initially apparent, may warrant a keener look.

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