BULLOUS PEMPHIGOID ASSOCIATED WITH ACUTE GLOMERULONEPHRITIS

We report an 82-year-old man who presented with bullous pemphigoid and who later developed an acute glomerulonephritis with the histopatholo gical and immunofluorescence pattern of a postinfectious glomeruloneph ritis, Antibodies directed against 230 and 180 kDa bullous pemphigoid antigens were detected in the patient's serum by means of the immunopr ecipitation technique, Staphylococcus aureus and methicillin-resistant S. aureus were isolated from the patient's skin. We consider that in this particular patient the cutaneous infection played a part in the d evelopment of the kidney complication.