Zeitschrift für Schmerztherapie und Medizin

Abstrakt

Rare Post Streptococcal Glomerulonephritis Presentations include Back Pain and Constipation

Paniz Pourpashang, Fatemeh Nili, Masoumeh Mohkam, Arefeh Zahmatkesh

Background: Post-Streptococcal Glomerulonephritis (PSGN) is a common disease that occurs after pharyngitis or dermatitis involvement with streptococcus. The disease complications are vary including rare neurological disorder like, Posterior Reversible Encephalopathy Syndrome (PRES). Although the disease has some common symptoms like hypertension, oliguria or anuria, and neurological defects, there have been no reports of a child having severe back pain or constipation up until this point.

Cases presentation: Here, we represent a child with severe back pain and constipation that was diagnosed as PRES syndrome followed PSGN.

Conclusion: Despite several studies on PSGN, attention to different and rare associated symptoms could help practitioners with accurate diagnoses. In addition, made us investigate the disease entity.