Acute glomerulonephritis [PDF]
Postgraduate Medical Journal, 2003 Abstract Glomerulonephritis is an important cause of renal failure thought to be caused by autoimmune damage to the kidney. While each type of glomerulonephritis begins with a unique initiating stimulus, subsequent common inflammatory and fibrotic events lead to a final pathway of progressive renal damage.
C S, Vinen, D B G, Oliveira
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Implications of Antiphospholipid and Antineutrophilic Cytoplasmic Antibodies in the Context of Postinfectious Glomerulonephritis. [PDF]
, 2017 While antineutrophil cytoplasmic antibody (ANCA) positivity has been documented in some patients with postinfectious glomerulonephritis (PIGN) and is associated with more severe disease, antiphospholipid antibodies (APA) are not known to be a common ...
Butani, Lavjay, Leifer, Daniel
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Combination Therapy With Rituximab and Cyclophosphamide for Remission Induction in ANCA Vasculitis
Kidney International Reports, 2018 Remission induction in antineutrophil cytoplasmic autoantibody (ANCA) vasculitis may be complicated by slow response to treatment and toxicity from glucocorticoids.
Frank B. Cortazar +6 more
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Incidence of glomerulonephritis in the western part of Switzerland over the last decade
Swiss Medical Weekly, 2020 BACKGROUND Glomerulonephritis is a rare yet serious group of diseases with a high risk of progression to end-stage renal disease. For optimal healthcare planning, detailed epidemiological and demographic data are essential.
Giliane Nanchen +6 more
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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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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 +4 more
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Архивъ внутренней медицины, 2020 The review provides up-to-date information on the etiological factors and pathogenic mechanisms of development, morphological changes, clinical and laboratory manifestations of acute glomerulonephritis, as well as therapeutic possibilities for its ...
I. T. Murkamilov +4 more
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Influence of infiltrate density in the interstitium on the prognosis of primary glomerulonephritis [PDF]
Vojnosanitetski Pregled, 2019 Background/Aim. Development of inflammatory changes, fibrosis and loss of morphological structures of the interstitium have an important role in pathogenesis of primary glomerulonephritis, affecting the development, course and prognosis of the disease ...
Božić Dušan +5 more
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Clinicopathological and prognostic study of IgA-dominant postinfectious glomerulonephritis
BMC Nephrology, 2021 Background The clinicopathological and prognostic features of IgA-dominant postinfectious glomerulonephritis and its difference from the primary IgA nephropathy remains to be investigated.
Ziyuan Huang +8 more
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Membranoproliferative glomerulonephritis in patients with chronic venous catheters: a case report and literature review. [PDF]
, 2014 Chronic indwelling catheters have been reported to be associated with membranoproliferative glomerulonephritis (MPGN) via the activation of the classical complement pathway in association with bacterial infections such as coagulase negative ...
Nast, Cynthia C +3 more
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