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Crescentic glomerulonephritis associated with syphilis: a case report and review of the literature [PDF]

Journal of Medical Case Reports, 2023
Background Crescentic glomerulonephritis with syphilis infection is rare, and the mechanism underlying the formation of glomerular capillary wall damage-induced crescent has not been elucidated. Case presentation A 62-year-old Japanese male showed edema,
Akiko Kaiga, Yuka Sato, Haruna Arakawa, Tatemitsu Rai, Akihiro Tojo   +4 more
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Chinese Herb-Induced Type II Crescentic Glomerulonephritis: A Case Report of Four Patients [PDF]

Kidney Medicine
Drug-induced type II crescentic glomerulonephritis is an uncommon but severe renal syndrome, rarely linked to pharmaceutical agents, with no established association to Chinese herbal medicines to date.
Yujia Wang, Kaiqi Huang, Caiming Chen, Keng Ye, Kunmei Lai, Xuan Tao, Hong Chen, Yanfang Xu   +7 more
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Pulmonary tularemia with antineutrophil-cytoplasmic-antibody-negative pauci-immune crescentic glomerulonephritis causing acute kidney injury: a case report and review of the literature [PDF]

Journal of Medical Case Reports
Background Tularemia is a zoonotic disease that is rarely diagnosed in Europe. Its clinical presentation is highly variable, requiring consideration of a broad differential diagnosis.
Matthias Feyrer, Michael Städt, Pawlos Ichtiaris, Philipp Koehl, Alexander Schuh   +4 more
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Clinicopathological characteristics and predictors of renal outcomes in diffuse crescentic glomerulonephritis : a retrospective single-center study from Western China [PDF]

BMC Nephrology
Background The factors influencing diffuse crescentic glomerulonephritis renal survival and prognosis remain uncertain. Additionally, there’s no literature on the clinical outcomes of IgA nephropathy, lupus nephritis, and IgA vasculitis nephritis in type
Shan Wen, Shasha Chen, Yingying Lin, Guisen Li, Ping Zhang, Wei Wang   +5 more
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The Utility of Myeloperoxidase Immunostaining to Characterize Immune Deposits in Patients With Crescentic Glomerulonephritis [PDF]

Kidney International Reports
Introduction: Pauci-immune crescentic glomerulonephritis (GN) is nearly synonymous with antineutrophil cytoplasmic antibody (ANCA)–associated disease. Cases with immune complex deposition create a diagnostic conundrum leading to suspicion for concurrent ...
Rachelle Gietzen, Tiffany N. Caza, Alejandro Best-Rocha, Christopher P. Larsen   +3 more
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Antineutrophil Cytoplasmic Autoantibody-Negative Pauci-Immune Crescentic Glomerulonephritis in a Patient with Systemic Lupus Erythematosus

Case Reports in Nephrology and Dialysis, 2022
Renal involvement in systemic lupus erythematosus is usually exhibited as lupus nephritis, which is a form of immune complex-mediated glomerulonephritis and one of the most severe organ manifestations of systemic lupus erythematosus.
Chee Eng Chan, Tze Jian Ng, Mohd Kamil Ahmad, Fariz Safhan Mohamad Nor   +3 more
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Recurrent Crescentic Infection Related Glomerulonephritis: a rare presentation

Indian Journal of Kidney Diseases, 2022
Infection Related Glomerulonephritis (IRGN) is an immune-mediated disease caused by non-renal infections. The most common histopathology is diffuse endocapillary proliferative glomerulonephritis with neutrophilic infiltrate. IRGN presenting as crescentic
Kapil Naveen Sejpal, PS Priyamvada, Sreejith Parameswaran, Rajesh Nachiappa Ganesh, Anand Chellappan   +4 more
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Secondary syphilis associated crescentic glomerulonephritis: A case report

Human Pathology Reports, 2021
Introduction: Syphilis is a sexually transmitted disease caused by the bacterium Treponema Pallidum and has a diverse clinical presentation, including nephropathies, the most common of which is membranous nephropathy. Crescentic glomerulonephritis is not
Marcelo Santos Sampaio, Grigoriy Alexander Shekhtman, Mandana Rastegar, Richard Michael Treger, Glenn Tetsu Nagami, Jonathan Eric Zuckerman   +5 more
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Spectrum of rapidly progressive (Crescentic) glomerulonephritis at a referral diagnostic center in Nepal: one year study

Journal of Pathology of Nepal, 2023
Background: A clinical syndrome manifested by features of glomerular disease in the urinalysis and by progressive loss of kidney function over a comparatively short period is called rapidly progressive glomerulonephritis (RPGN).
Nirajan Mainali, Rupenra Thapa
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Bartonella-Associated Endocarditis with Severe Active Crescentic Glomerulonephritis and Acute Renal Failure

Case Reports in Nephrology, 2021
We report a case of severe acute kidney failure due to crescentic glomerulonephritis who presented initially with culture-negative endocarditis with vegetations on the aortic valve.
Ramanath Dukkipati, Benjamin Lawson, Cynthia C. Nast, Anuja Shah   +3 more
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