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Case Reports

A case of Behçet’s disease developing after poststreptococcal acute glomerulonephritis

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Pages 1221-1225 | Received 04 Jun 2012, Accepted 30 Jul 2012, Published online: 14 Jan 2014
 

Abstract

We report a case of a 73-year-old Japanese male patient who developed Behçet’s disease (BD) after poststreptococcal acute glomerulonephritis. Three months after the initial presentation, acneiform eruption and oral and genital ulcers appeared. Treatment with oral prednisolone (20 mg/day) resulted in the remarkable disappearance of these symptoms. These findings support the hypothesis that Streptococcus pyogenes may be an etiologic factor of BD.

Acknowledgments

We thank Dr. Norihisa Osawa (Nagahama City Hospital, Department of Nephrology and Metabology) for providing pathological specimens in .

Conflict of interest

None.

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