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Outcome
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pneumoniae antigen in the renal parenchyma. The authors
(1.5 mo)
argued that this does not necessarily rule out the role of this
microorganism, because the pathogenesis of postinfectious
GN is more likely based on immunologic mechanisms.3 An
immune reaction against the glomeruli could be supported by
the detection of anti-M. pneumoniae antibodies by immuno-
fluorescence in the glomeruli. The antigen involved could be
Minimal change disease mycoplasmal or a cross-reacting renal antigen. Searches for
M. pneumoniae antigen by immunofluorescence in the renal
Renal Biopsy
Endocapillary GN
Endocapillary GN
TABLE 2. Cases in the literature of Mycoplasma pneumoniae-associated nephritis in children
MPGN II
Not done
Not done
Not done
Not done
MPGN I
MPGN I
Persistently decreased C3
Persistently decreased C3
Transiently decreased C3
Normal C3 and C4
Normal C3 and C4
Normal C3 and C4
Normal C4
Normal C4
Not done
fectious glomerulonephritis.
Renal Manifestations in
Addition to Nephritis
Moderate proteinuria
Moderate proteinuria
Moderate proteinuria
Nephrotic syndrome
Nephrotic syndrome
E-mail xmatsouk@cc.uoi.gr.
Relapse after 6 mo
1. File TM, Tan JS, Plouffe JF. The role of atypical pathogens:
proteinuria
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7. ⌴adaio MP, Harrington JT. The diagnosis of glomerular
diseases. Arch Intern Med 2001;161:25–34.
8. Dumas R, Bascoul S, Baldet P, Serre A, Roux J, Jean R.
⌴embranoproliferative glomerulonephritis and Mycoplasma
infection. Arch Fr Pediatr 1976;33:783–94.
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9. Vitullo B〉, O’Regan S, de Chadarevian JP, Kaplan BS. Methods. Formalin-fixed, paraffin-embedded pancreas
Mycoplasma pneumonia associated with acute glomerulone- tissue blocks were evaluated from 10 patients who died in the
phritis. Nephron 1978;21:284 – 8. acute phase of KD and from 10 control children (Table 1).
10. Waskowski SD, Powers BJ. Glomerulonephritis and Myco-
Controls were age-matched and from children with infectious
plasma infection. Ann Intern Med 1983;98:112–13.
11. Cochat P, Colon S, Bosshard S, Zech P, Traeger J. ⌴embrano- and noninfectious diseases (Table 1). None of the patients or
proliferative glomerulonephritis and Mycoplasma pneu- controls had clinical evidence of pancreatitis or diabetes
moniae infection. Arch Fr Pediatr 1985;42:29 –31. mellitus. After xylene deparaffinization the sections were
12. Biberfeld G, ⌵orberg R. Circulating immune complexes in rehydrated and antigen retrieval enhancement was per-
Mycoplasma pneumoniae infection. J Immunol 1974;112: formed by heating the slides in 10 mM sodium citrate buffer,
413–5. pH 6.0, with the use of microwave treatment. Sections were
13. Biberfeld G. Antibodies to brain and other tissues in cases of incubated for 1 h at room temperature with a 1/75 dilution of
Mycoplasma pneumoniae infection. Clin Exp Immunol 1971;
8:319 –33.
mouse anti-human CD68 (Dako, Glostrup, Denmark) or a
1/100 dilution of mouse anti-human CD3 (Novocastra, New-
castle, UK). Biotinylated horse anti-mouse secondary anti-
body was added, and color was developed by use of the
Vectastain Elite ABC Kit (Vector, Burlingame, CA). Diami-
MACROPHAGE INFILTRATION OF PANCREATIC ACINI
nobenzidine tetrahydrochloride was used as a reaction prod-
AND ISLETS IN ACUTE KAWASAKI DISEASE
uct to generate a brown stain. Sections were lightly counter-
stained with hematoxylin. Normal spleen was used as a
A report of 2 patients who developed diabetes positive control tissue for CD68 and CD3 antibodies; many
after Kawasaki disease (KD) led us to determine positive cells were observed for each antibody. Negative
whether macrophages and/or T cells infiltrate acute controls included slides in which the primary antibody was
KD pancreas. Three of 10 acute fatal KD cases had omitted, and these controls did not demonstrate any staining.
diffuse macrophage infiltration of the pancreas; T We also performed immunohistochemistry on adjacent, se-
cells were not prominent. Affected islets were seen quential sections of pancreas from patient 10 using mouse
in close proximity to normal islets. These findings anti-human antibodies to CD68 and to insulin (dilution,
may explain the rarity of diabetes after KD. 1/150; Novocastra) to study the infiltration of CD68⫹ macro-
phages into the islets.
Inflammatory lesions develop in many tissues in acute Positive cells were classified as follows: absent; focal (rare
Kawasaki disease (KD), most notably the coronary arteries. single cells without aggregates); multifocal (discrete foci of
Pancreatitis is observed at autopsy in 40% of KD fatalities in aggregates, 1 to 5 per ⫻20 field); or diffuse (⬎5 foci of
the first month after onset,1 and clinical evidence of pancre- aggregates per ⫻20 field).
atitis during acute KD has also been reported.2, 3 We previ- Results. Inflammatory infiltrates were present around the
ously reported IgA plasma cell infiltration in the pancreas in ductular components of the pancreas in all 10 KD patients,
acute KD.4 Bhowmick et al.5 recently reported two children but the severity of infiltration varied, being most severe in
with insulin-dependent diabetes mellitus who presented with Patients 8, 9 and 10, in whom mild to moderate periductular
ketoacidosis within 4 months of being diagnosed with KD and fibrosis was also noted. In KD Patients 8, 9 and 10, there was
suggested that KD may have led to the development of occasional acinar dropout with resulting fibrosis, but these
diabetes mellitus in these patients. In this study we deter- changes were present in ⬍20% of the pancreas. In areas of
mined whether T lymphocytes and macrophages infiltrate the marked inflammation in the pancreas of these patients, a
pancreas during the acute phase of KD. contiguous islet was occasionally involved in the process.
TABLE 1. Clinical data for patients with fatal acute Kawasaki disease and controls in a study of macrophages in the
pancreas
Case Age Sex Ethnicity Cause of Death
Control
1 4 yr Female White Tetralogy of Fallot
2 2 mo Female Unknown Cardiomyopathy
3 3 mo Female Black Respiratory syncytial virus pneumonia
4 6 yr Male White Hypoplastic lung
5 2 mo Male Hispanic Complex congenital heart disease
6 12 mo Male Black Rotavirus infection
7 2 mo Female Unknown Transposition of great arteries
8 2 mo Male Hispanic Complete atrioventricular canal
9 3 mo Female Hispanic Influenza B pneumonia
10 7 mo Female White Influenza A pneumonia