KROK 1 2011 – Question 107 · KROK (Medicine) · Pathophysiology
A 38-year-old male patient has been ill with systemic lupus erythematosus for three years. He was diagnosed with diffuse renal affection accompanied by massive edemata and expressive proteinuria. What is the most likely cause of proteinuria development?
- A. Urinary bladder inflammation
- B. Aseptic renal affection
- C. Urinary tracts inflammation
- D. Autoimmune renal affection
- E. Ischemic renal affection
Hint
Link the systemic disease in the history to the way the glomerular filtration barrier becomes leaky, and ask what kind of process lupus represents.
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