RENAL VASCULITIS WITH HIV SEROPOSITIVITY - POTENTIAL MANIFESTATION OFCYTOMEGALOVIRUS-INFECTION

The associations among human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) infection, f ocal segmental glomerulosclerosis, and its variant, ''collapsing glome rulopathy,'' often leading to chronic renal failure, are well describe d, HIV-seropositive patients may also develop a variety of immune comp lex-mediated glomerular diseases, including postinfectious glomerulone phritis, IgA nephropathy, and membranoproliferative glomerulonephritis . Herein we describe a case of pauci-immune necrotizing renal vasculit is in an HIV-seropositive patient, thereby expanding the differential diagnosis of acute renal failure in this setting. (C) 1997 by the Nati onal Kidney Foundation, Inc.