Case Report
Acute kidney injury in an HIV patient with plasmablastic lymphoma – A double-edged sword
Southern African Journal of Infectious Diseases | Vol 39, No 1 | a637 |
DOI: https://doi.org/10.4102/sajid.v39i1.637
| © 2024 Gerhard van Wyk, Liezel Coetzee, Mogamat-Yazied Chothia
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Submitted: 13 March 2024 | Published: 31 May 2024
Submitted: 13 March 2024 | Published: 31 May 2024
About the author(s)
Gerhard van Wyk, Department of Nephrology, Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences, Stellenbosch University, Cape Town, South AfricaLiezel Coetzee, Department of Pathology, Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences, Stellenbosch University, Cape Town, South Africa
Mogamat-Yazied Chothia, Department of Nephrology, Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences, Stellenbosch University, Cape Town, South Africa
Abstract
HIV patients frequently develop acute kidney injury (AKI) because of sepsis and diarrhoeal disease. Here, we report a case of an HIV-positive man with partially treated sinonasal plasmablastic lymphoma (PBL) and unexplained AKI. A kidney biopsy revealed two pathological processes.
Contribution: While urinary tract obstruction is the most common mechanism by which PBL causes AKI, maintaining a high level of suspicion for multiple pathological processes in cases involving light chain producing PBL.
Keywords
acute kidney injury; light chains; cast nephropathy; HIV; tumour infiltration
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