Case Presentation: A 66-year-old female with a history of hypertension presented to the emergency department with one week of lower extremity edema, nausea, and vomiting. On admission, the patient was found to be hyponatremic, hypoalbuminemic, with nephrotic range proteinuria (urine protein-to-creatinine ratio of 8.5 g/g) and acute kidney injury. During the hospital course, the patient’s [...]

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 [...]