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Editor, Senior Moderator
Kidney Med
. 2020 Jun 7;2(4):488-492.
doi: 10.1016/j.xkme.2020.05.004. eCollection Jul-Aug 2020.
COVID-19-Related Glomerulopathy: A Report of 2 Cases of Collapsing Focal Segmental Glomerulosclerosis
Sandeep Magoon[SUP] 1 2 [/SUP], Prasad Bichu[SUP] 2 [/SUP], Varun Malhotra[SUP] 1 2 [/SUP], Fatema Alhashimi[SUP] 3 [/SUP], Yanglin Hu[SUP] 3 [/SUP], Siddharth Khanna[SUP] 4 [/SUP], Kabaye Berhanu[SUP] 4 [/SUP]
Affiliations
Abstract
Coronavirus disease 19 (COVID-19), an infectious disease caused by the severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2), has been associated with acute kidney injury, presumably due to acute tubular injury. However, this does not explain proteinuria, sometimes severe, and hematuria often observed. We present 2 African American patients with glomerulopathy demonstrated by kidney biopsy in the setting of acute kidney injury and COVID-19 infection. Kidney biopsy specimens showed a collapsing variant of focal segmental glomerulosclerosis in addition to acute tubular injury. Both patients were homozygous for apolipoprotein L1 (APOL1). COVID-19 infection likely caused the interferon surge as a second hit causing podocyte injury leading to collapsing focal segmental glomerulosclerosis. APOL1 testing should be strongly considered in African American patients with nephrotic-range proteinuria. More data from future kidney biopsies will further elucidate the pathology of kidney injury and glomerular involvement from COVID-19 infections.
Keywords: AKI; COVID; FSGS; SARS; collapsing; glomerulopathy; proteinuria.
. 2020 Jun 7;2(4):488-492.
doi: 10.1016/j.xkme.2020.05.004. eCollection Jul-Aug 2020.
COVID-19-Related Glomerulopathy: A Report of 2 Cases of Collapsing Focal Segmental Glomerulosclerosis
Sandeep Magoon[SUP] 1 2 [/SUP], Prasad Bichu[SUP] 2 [/SUP], Varun Malhotra[SUP] 1 2 [/SUP], Fatema Alhashimi[SUP] 3 [/SUP], Yanglin Hu[SUP] 3 [/SUP], Siddharth Khanna[SUP] 4 [/SUP], Kabaye Berhanu[SUP] 4 [/SUP]
Affiliations
- PMID: 32775989
- PMCID: PMC7275990
- DOI: 10.1016/j.xkme.2020.05.004
Abstract
Coronavirus disease 19 (COVID-19), an infectious disease caused by the severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2), has been associated with acute kidney injury, presumably due to acute tubular injury. However, this does not explain proteinuria, sometimes severe, and hematuria often observed. We present 2 African American patients with glomerulopathy demonstrated by kidney biopsy in the setting of acute kidney injury and COVID-19 infection. Kidney biopsy specimens showed a collapsing variant of focal segmental glomerulosclerosis in addition to acute tubular injury. Both patients were homozygous for apolipoprotein L1 (APOL1). COVID-19 infection likely caused the interferon surge as a second hit causing podocyte injury leading to collapsing focal segmental glomerulosclerosis. APOL1 testing should be strongly considered in African American patients with nephrotic-range proteinuria. More data from future kidney biopsies will further elucidate the pathology of kidney injury and glomerular involvement from COVID-19 infections.
Keywords: AKI; COVID; FSGS; SARS; collapsing; glomerulopathy; proteinuria.