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Clique aqui para Português During the celebration of Brazil’s Folklore Day 2023, we learned more about how the residents of Parada de Lucas, in Rio de Janeiro’s North Zone, continue to breathe life into ‘bumba meu boi,’ a northeastern Brazilian, Black and indigenous folkloric expression, strongly tied to the saints associated with Brazil’s June Festivals. The ‘matraca‘ and the ‘pandeiro‘ make the ground tremble… This heritage was left by our grandparents.
The antiglomerular basement membrane (anti-GBM) antibody disease is marked by the presence of specific antibodies against the non-collagenous domain of the type IV collagen’s α3 chain. We describe a case of a 24-year-old Caucasian man, who may have had an atypical presentation of anti-GBM (slow progressive renal insufficiency, massive proteinuria and no detectable circulating anti-GBM antibody). The patient was treated with steroids and cyclophosphamide.
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