Case Reports
Vol. 12 No. 1 (2018)
https://doi.org/10.4081/itjm.2018.929

Acute granulomatous interstitial nephritis and ulcerative colitis: a case report and literature review

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Received: 16 September 2017
Published: 20 March 2018
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Aminosalicylate therapy, inflammatory bowel disease, tubulo-interstitial nephritis, steroid therapy.
Nephrology, Gastroenterology

Authors

Giorgia Comai
Department of Experimental Diagnostic and Specialty Medicine, Nephrology, Dialysis and Renal Transplant Unit, S. Orsola-Malpighi Hospital, University of Bologna, Bologna, Italy.
Olga Baraldi
Department of Experimental Diagnostic and Specialty Medicine, Nephrology, Dialysis and Renal Transplant Unit, S. Orsola-Malpighi Hospital, University of Bologna, Bologna, Italy.
Vania Cuna
Department of Experimental Diagnostic and Specialty Medicine, Nephrology, Dialysis and Renal Transplant Unit, S. Orsola-Malpighi Hospital, University of Bologna, Bologna, Italy.
Valeria Corradetti
Department of Experimental Diagnostic and Specialty Medicine, Nephrology, Dialysis and Renal Transplant Unit, S. Orsola-Malpighi Hospital, University of Bologna, Bologna, Italy.
Maria Cappuccilli
Department of Experimental Diagnostic and Specialty Medicine, Nephrology, Dialysis and Renal Transplant Unit, S. Orsola-Malpighi Hospital, University of Bologna, Bologna, Italy.
Marco Busutti
Department of Experimental Diagnostic and Specialty Medicine, Nephrology, Dialysis and Renal Transplant Unit, S. Orsola-Malpighi Hospital, University of Bologna, Bologna, Italy.
Deborah Malvi
Pathology Department, S. Orsola-Malpighi Hospital, University of Bologna, Bologna, Italy.
Benedetta Fabbrizio
Pathology Department, S. Orsola-Malpighi Hospital, University of Bologna, Bologna, Italy.
Massimo Campieri
Department of Clinical Medicine, S. Orsola Malpighi Hospital, University of Bologna, Bologna, Italy.
Gaetano La Manna
gaetano.lamanna@unibo.it
Department of Experimental Diagnostic and Specialty Medicine, Nephrology, Dialysis and Renal Transplant Unit, S. Orsola-Malpighi Hospital, University of Bologna, Bologna, Italy.
Tubulo-interstitial nephritis (TIN) in patients affected by inflammatory bowel disease, both ulcerative colitis and Crohn's disease, is usually considered as drug-associated to aminosalicylate. We report a rare case of granulomatous active tubulo-interstitial nephritis in a young patient with a recent diagnosis of ulcerative colitis na¯ve to aminosalicylate treatment. The patient has been successfully treated with steroids administration. Our purpose is to sensitize that TIN should always to be considered in differential diagnosis an extra-intestinal manifestation of bowel disease.

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Giorgia Comai, Department of Experimental Diagnostic and Specialty Medicine, Nephrology, Dialysis and Renal Transplant Unit, S. Orsola-Malpighi Hospital, University of Bologna, Bologna
Nephrologist
Olga Baraldi, Department of Experimental Diagnostic and Specialty Medicine, Nephrology, Dialysis and Renal Transplant Unit, S. Orsola-Malpighi Hospital, University of Bologna, Bologna
Nephrologist
Vania Cuna, Department of Experimental Diagnostic and Specialty Medicine, Nephrology, Dialysis and Renal Transplant Unit, S. Orsola-Malpighi Hospital, University of Bologna, Bologna
Nephrologist
Valeria Corradetti, Department of Experimental Diagnostic and Specialty Medicine, Nephrology, Dialysis and Renal Transplant Unit, S. Orsola-Malpighi Hospital, University of Bologna, Bologna
Nephrologist
Maria Cappuccilli, Department of Experimental Diagnostic and Specialty Medicine, Nephrology, Dialysis and Renal Transplant Unit, S. Orsola-Malpighi Hospital, University of Bologna, Bologna
Biochemist
Marco Busutti, Department of Experimental Diagnostic and Specialty Medicine, Nephrology, Dialysis and Renal Transplant Unit, S. Orsola-Malpighi Hospital, University of Bologna, Bologna
Specializing nephrologist
Deborah Malvi, Pathology Department, S. Orsola-Malpighi Hospital, University of Bologna, Bologna
Anatomopathologist
Benedetta Fabbrizio, Pathology Department, S. Orsola-Malpighi Hospital, University of Bologna, Bologna
Anatomopathologist
Massimo Campieri, Department of Clinical Medicine, S. Orsola Malpighi Hospital, University of Bologna, Bologna
Full Professor of Gastroenterology

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Acute granulomatous interstitial nephritis and ulcerative colitis: a case report and literature review. (2018). Italian Journal of Medicine, 12(1), 57-60. https://doi.org/10.4081/itjm.2018.929

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