THE question of whether poststreptococcal acute glomerulonephritis may occur without clinically detectable proteinuria is an elusive one. If one insists on bacteriologic or serologic evidence of a ...

Researchers from Johns Hopkins Medicine and Yale University have collaborated on the development and application of a diagnostic model to detect acute interstitial nephritis (AIN) in patients, which ...

Controversy concerns immunological and ultrastructural features of acute poststreptococcal glomerulonephritis. Opportunity to study, by renal biopsy, immunohistochemistry and electron microscopy, an ...

The late Dr. Warfield T. Longcope and his associates at the Johns Hopkins Hospital exhibited a long and continuous interest in the relation between infections due to the hemolytic streptococcus and ...

A recent study posted to medRxiv* preprint server reported a novel form of post-acute coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) syndrome in children. Study: Acute tubulointerstitial nephritis with or ...

Membranous glomerulonephritis (MGN) is a type of kidney disease characterized by inflammation that impairs kidney function. It may lead to complications like high cholesterol, high blood pressure, ...

Glomerulonephritis (GN) is a condition in which the kidneys are inflamed. The glomeruli are the filtering mechanism of the kidneys. They consist of a tuft of highly coiled capillaries cupped in a ...

A synthetic peptide appears to directly disrupt the destructive inflammation that occurs in nephritis, enabling the kidneys to better recover and maintain their important functions, investigators ...

AKI or acute kidney injury is a complex clinical disorder frequently seen in hospitalized critically ill patients. 1 It is defined as a functional or structural kidney abnormality in which a patient ...

AUGUSTA, Ga. (March 25, 2019) - A synthetic peptide appears to directly disrupt the destructive inflammation that occurs in nephritis, enabling the kidneys to better recover and maintain their ...