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    A case of granulomatosis of polyangiitis presenting with COVID-19 infection: False-positivity or co-existence?
    (2023-09-29) KAYA, MİTHAT; GÖKCE, İBRAHİM; ALPAY, HARİKA; KAYA M., GÖKCE İ., Guven S., Pul S., ALPAY H.
    Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) was declared a global pandemic and a public health emergency worldwide in March 2020. COVID-19 presents with non-specific symptoms of the upper airway and pulmonary system, which can overlap with other diseases involving the respiratory system as granulomatosis with polyangiitis (GPA). Both diseases have high morbidity and mortality rates and it is important to promptly differentiate and treat them. Real-time reverse transcriptase polymerase chain reaction (RT-PCR) is currently the recommended method for diagnosing COVID-19. Antibody-based tests are used to diagnose both pat and current COVID-19 infections. We present a previously healthy thirteen-year-old girl who was admitted with upper airway symptoms and pulmonary involvement, and progressed to acute kidney failure. Laboratory findings showed leukocytosis, anemia, elevated kidney function tests and 2+ proteinuria. Computed tomography (CT) of the lungs showed multiple nodules, cavities, and ground-glass opacities (GGOs). We performed RT-PCR tests for COVID-19 for three times. Results were all negative, but the COVID-19 immunoglobulin (Ig)M test sent simultaneously was positive. Based on the cytoplasmic antineutrophilic cytoplasmic antibody (c-ANCA) positivity, upper airway, pulmonary, and renal involvement, she was diagnosed as GPA. This report highlights that COVID-19 antibody tests can be false-positive in patients with autoimmune diseases including GPA.
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    Collapsing Glomerulopathy in a Patient with a TRPC6 Mutation Presenting as Rapidly Progressive Glomerulonephritis: A Case Report and Review of the Literature
    (2023-01-01) GÖKCE, İBRAHİM; KAYA, MİTHAT; ÇİÇEK DENİZ, NESLİHAN; YILDIZ, NURDAN; KAYA, HANDAN; ALPAY, HARİKA; GÖKCE İ., KAYA M., ÇİÇEK N., Guven S., Ercetin Y., YILDIZ N., KAYA H., ALPAY H.
    Collapsing glomerulopathy (CG) is a proliferative disease characterized by segmental or global wrinkling of the glomerular basement membrane and the formation of pseudocrescents, whereas focal segmental glomerulosclerosis (FSGS) is characterized by podocytopenia, and focal and segmental sclerosis of the glomeruli. Mutations in NPHS1, NPHS2, WT1, PLCE1, CD2AP, ACTN4, and TRPC6 have been reported in steroid-resistant FSGS patients. The mutations p.R895C and p.R895L in Exon 13 are the only ones in TRPC6 causing CG reported to date. Here, we present the case of a 17-year-old male patient with a collapsing variant of familial FSGS caused by a mutation in TRPC6 (p.R895C) who presented with rapidly progressive (crescentic) and proliferative glomerulonephritis.