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Preferred term

Glomerulonephritis  

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Entry terms

  • Kidney Scarring
  • Scarring, Kidney

Scope note

  • Inflammation of the renal glomeruli (KIDNEY GLOMERULUS) that can be classified by the type of glomerular injuries including antibody deposition, complement activation, cellular proliferation, and glomerulosclerosis. These structural and functional abnormalities usually lead to HEMATURIA; PROTEINURIA; HYPERTENSION; and RENAL INSUFFICIENCY.

History note

  • BRIGHT DISEASE was BRIGHT'S DISEASE see NEPHRITIS 1963-78

In other languages

  • glomerulonefriitti

    Finnish

  • glomerulonephritis
  • munuaiskerästen tulehdus
  • munuaiskerästulehdus
  • määrittämätön munuaiskeräsmuutos
  • määrittämätön nefriittinen oireyhtymä
  • nefriittinen oireyhtymä
  • syndroma nephriticum non specificatum
  • Glomerulonefrit

    Swedish

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http://www.yso.fi/onto/mesh/D005921

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