IgA Nephropathy in a Patient with Systemic Lupus Erythematosus Sistemik Lupus Eritematozlu Bir Olguda IgA Nefropatisi

Systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE) is an autoimmune disorder. One of the most typical aspects of SLE is renal involvement. Lupus nephritis is a serious disease whose prognosis can usually be improved dramatically by treatment. The occurrence of non-lupus nephritis in SLE patients has rarely been reported. IgA Nephropathy (IgAN) and lupus nephritis (LN) have quite different laboratory, histopathologic findings and extra-renal clinical manifestations. In the light of these data we thought that IgAN and LN have different pathogeneses. We report a patient with SLE in whom IgA nephropathy was diagnosed.