Successful Treatment of a Case of Crescentic Glomerulonephritis in a Patient with Primary Peritoneal Carcinoma: A case report

Sultan Qaboos Univ Med J. 2024 Feb;24(1):119-122. doi: 10.18295/squmj.1.2023.013. Epub 2022 Sep 11.

Abstract

Crescentic glomerulonephritis has been associated with several solid tumour malignancies. Only a few cases of nephropathy have been reported in association with tubo-ovarian/peritoneal malignancies. We report a 55-year-old female patient who presented to a tertiary care centre, Muscat, Oman, in 2022. She developed combined immune complex-mediated glomerulonephritis and pauci-immune necrotising crescentic vasculitis simultaneously with the diagnosis of tubo-ovarian/peritoneal cancer. The baseline estimated glomerular filtration rate (eGFR) was 13 mL/min. The patient received two doses of rituximab and three doses of pulse corticosteroids, leading to significant improvement in renal function and the disappearance of her proteinuria. The eGFR improved to >60mL/min; her proteinuria gradually resolved after 10 weeks of treatment. She was then given a combination chemotherapy treatment for tubo-ovarian/peritoneal cancer leading to a normalisation of her CA-125 after three months of therapy.

Keywords: Case Report; Chemotherapy; Glomerulonephritis; Oman; Peritoneal Neoplasm; Vasculitis.

Publication types

  • Case Reports

MeSH terms

  • CA-125 Antigen
  • Carcinoma*
  • Female
  • Glomerulonephritis* / drug therapy
  • Humans
  • Middle Aged
  • Patients
  • Proteinuria

Substances

  • CA-125 Antigen