An eight-year-old boy presenting with features of acute glomerulonephritis (AGN), developed jaundice. He was positive for hepatitis A immunoglobulin M. AGN is a rare complication of hepatitis A. Here, we describe a temporal association of hepatitis A infection complicated by AGN.
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