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Pathologic manifestations of levamisole-adulterated cocaine exposure. [PDF]
, 2015 UnlabelledRheumatic manifestations of cocaine have been well described, but more recently, a dramatic increase in the levamisole-adulterated cocaine supply in the United States has disclosed unique pathologic consequences that are distinct from pure ...
Jen, Kuang-Yu, Nolan, Amber L
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Glomerulonephritis with crescents in childhood; etiologies and significance of M2 macrophages
The Turkish Journal of Pediatrics, 2022 Background. Crescentic glomerulonephritis (CGN) is a rapidly progressive and rare cause of glomerulonephritis in childhood. The aim of this study is to evaluate demographic data of children with crescentic glomerulonephritis, to classify the ...
Gözdem Kaykı +9 more
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Effect of dsRNA on Mesangial Cell Synthesis of Plasminogen Activator Inhibitor Type 1 and Tissue Plasminogen Activator [PDF]
, 2009 Background/Aims: Viral infections are a major problem worldwide and many of them are complicated by virally induced glomerulonephritides. Progression of kidney disease to renal failure is mainly attributed to the development of renal fibrosis ...
Merkle, Monika +4 more
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What is new in the management of rapidly progressive glomerulonephritis? [PDF]
, 2015 Rapidly progressive glomerulonephritis (RPGN) results from severe crescentic damage to glomeruli and leads to irreversible kidney failure if not diagnosed and managed in a timely fashion.
Greenhall, GHB, Salama, AD
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Prognostic Factors of Renal Involvement in Systemic Sclerosis [PDF]
, 2018 Background/Aims: Renal involvement is common in systemic sclerosis (SSc), including asymptomatic reduction of glomerular filtration rate (GFR), increased renal resistance indices, scleroderma renal crisis (SRC) and ANCA-associated vasculitis. The aim was
Barbano, Biagio +5 more
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Pauci-immune glomerulonephritis in individuals with disease associated with levamisole-adulterated cocaine: a series of 4 cases. [PDF]
, 2014 Exposure to levamisole-adulterated cocaine can induce a distinct clinical syndrome characterized by retiform purpura and/or agranulocytosis accompanied by an unusual constellation of serologic abnormalities including antiphospholipid antibodies, lupus ...
Butcher, Brad +6 more
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Saudi Journal of Kidney Diseases and Transplantation, 2018 Double positive crescentic glomerulonephritis is relatively rare in young population and has variable outcomes. Although increased incidence of deep venous thrombosis in antineutrophil cytoplasmic antibody-associated vasculitis has been reported ...
Vijoy Kumar Jha +4 more
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Gremlin, a potential urinary biomarker of anca-associated crescentic glomerulonephritis [PDF]
, 2019 Gremlin renal overexpression has been reported in diabetic nephropathy, pauci-immune crescentic glomerulonephritis and chronic allograft nephropathy and has been implicated in the pathophysiology of the progression of renal damage. However, it is unknown
Burgos, María E. +7 more
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Anti-glomerular basement membrane disease: A clinicomorphological study of 16 cases
Indian Journal of Pathology and Microbiology, 2020 Introduction: Antiglomerular basement membrane disease manifests as rapidly progressive glomerulonephritis and alveolar hemorrhage. It encompasses 10–15% of crescentic glomerulonephritis and is associated with poor outcome.
Srinivasrao Vavilapalli +6 more
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Saudi Journal of Kidney Diseases and Transplantation, 2020 A 69-year old male patient attended our clinic with fatigue, fever, anuria, nephritic syndrome and severe renal failure. Kidney biopsy showed pauci-immune crescentic glomerulonephritis with an unusual association of suppurative interstitial nephritis ...
Sultan Ozkurt +4 more
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