[Recurrent acute renal failure during the course of hemolytic crisis in a patient with glucose-6-phosphate dehydrogenase deficiency].

Episodes of the acute renal failure have been noted in a 36-year old female patient in the course of recurrent hemolytic crisis. Significant G-6-DP deficit in erythrocytes was the sole possible cause of hemolytic anemia. Nitrofurantoin administered to the patient for recurrent urinary infection could have a predisposing influence in development of hemolytic anemia.