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A 70-year-old woman presents with constitutional symptoms for several weeks and acute renal failure. Creatinine rose from a baseline of 80 µmol per liter to 180. Urinalysis was positive for blood and 3 g/L of protein. Microscopy is shown below. A renal biopsy was performed on the same day, light microscopy also appears below.

Which of the following is most compatible with this overall presentation?

cellular red cell cast low power copy cellular red cell cast copy crescentic glomerulonephritis
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