Molar pregnancy and glomerulonephritis.

Miss FS was a 17-year-old single sexually active nulliparous Malay girl. She presented to our centre with a one-month history of cough, haemoptysis, loss of appetite and nausea. One week prior to admission, she developed facial puffiness, bilateral leg edema, frothy urine and increasing weight. Her last menstrual period was a month earlier on 17th June 2004. Physical examination on admission revealed a young girl with pallor, facial puffiness and gross bilateral pitting leg edema. Her pulse rate was 120 beats per minute and blood pressure was 150/110 mmHg. Abdominal examination revealed a palpable uterine mass of 18 weeks size.