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What causes the dark urine associated with acute poststreptococcal glomerulonephritis?

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often the first clinical manifestation of APSGN. Dark urine is caused by hemolysis of red blood cells that have penetrated the glomerular basement membrane and have passed into the tubular system. Periorbital edema is typical.

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