Case Presentation: A 27-year-old African American male with past medical history of hypertension presented with vomiting, diarrhea, chest pain and shortness of breath for about 1 week. He was septic with a temperature of 100.4F and heart rate of 130 bpm, but normotensive. No peripheral edema was present on exam. Leukocytosis (11.2K), anion gap metabolic [...]

Case Presentation: Lupus nephritis (LN) is a clinical manifestation of SLE that can be histologically categorized from class I-VI. One form of LN that is not included in the classification is lupus podocytopathy (LP). LP is a somewhat rare manifestation of SLE associated nephrotic syndrome that mimics minimal change disease (MCD) and is diagnosed via [...]