(1) There was prompt symptomatic relief and amelioration of signs of nephritis.
(2) No cases of rheumatic fever and no acute nephritis appeared in spite of the vigorous immune response to both cellular and extracellular antigens of group A streptococci documented in 50% to 80% of patients, suggesting that strain variation may be a feature of rheumatogenicity as well as nephritogenicity of group A streptococcal pharyngitis.
(3) A prospective study was carried out in 25 patients with systemic lupus erythematosis (SLE) on the effect of normalizing serum complement (CH50) and anti-DNA antibodies on the course of lupus nephritis.
(4) These results have important implications for the understanding of renal interstitial autoimmune diseases as well as the interstitial nephritis that occurs in response to foreign Ag.
(5) Clinical history was negative for intake of drugs capable of inducing acute interstitial nephritis.
(6) Glomerulonephritis largely occurred independently of interstitial nephritis.
(7) All but 1 of 100 cases macroscopically identified as nephritis and studied histologically proved to be of interstitial type in which lymphocytic infiltration predominated.
(8) A 34 year old white male patient suffering from seropositive "probable" rheumatoid arthritis developed a severe hypocomplementemic mesangiocapillary glomerulo-nephritis.
(9) Interstitial mononuclear cell infiltration in rats during the development of autoimmune Heymann nephritis (HN) was studied using the fine-needle aspiration biopsy (FNAB) technique.
(10) Glomerular macrophages and mesangial cells cultured from MRL-lpr mice with nephritis both secrete IL-1.
(11) The evolution of Lupus Nephritis to end-stage chronic renal failure is a frequent event.
(12) Seven renal biopsies from the six patients showed severe acute interstitial nephritis with mononuclear cellular infiltration and distal tubular damage.
(13) Based on the above findings, fibronectin in the GBM of rats with Heymann nephritis may reasonably be concluded to originate from the plasma.
(14) Immunological functions were investigated in 10 children with acute rheumatic fever and 11 children with acute nephritis to try and elucidate the cause of heart damage in acute rheumatic fever.
(15) A case of aggressive lupus nephritis in a pediatric renal transplant patient is described.
(16) The observation of enzymuria seemed to be important to diagnosis and follow-up of the interstitial nephritis.
(17) Idiotypes (Id) of human anti-DNA antibodies, designated as O-81 Id, were specifically detected on the immune deposits of renal glomeruli in 46% of patients with lupus nephritis.
(18) Renal biopsy revealed interstitial nephritis with granular deposition of immunoglobulin G (IgG) and C3 in the renal tubular basement membrane (TBM).
(19) Serum C4 and C3 concentration and binding of double-stranded-DNA (ds-DNA) were measured in sera from ninety-nine patients with systemic lupus erythematosus and clinical evidence of nephritis.
(20) In the group of nephritis, patients with renal failure and chronic nephritis showed evidently lower DI than those without renal failure but acute nephritis; increased L were also noted in association with renal failure.
Pyelonephritis
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(1) The urinary concentration of these proteins was significantly increased in acute pyelonephritis compared with acute cystitis and asymptomatic bacteriuria.
(2) In 52 patients there were data for pyelonephritis, in 46 patients there was no renal infection.
(3) We have studied the serum and urine antibody responses to Escherichia coli in men and women with pyelonephritis, cystitis, and asymptomatic bacteriuria.
(4) A 70-year-old man suffering from nephrolithiasis developed acute pyelonephritis following extracorporeal shock wave lithotripsy of renal stones.
(5) The aim of the study was to compare different methods of determining glomerular function in patients with renal scarring due to previous pyelonephritis and to determine the urinary excretion of beta 2-microglobulin in these patients.
(6) Infectious causes of acute renal failure in the pregnant woman include acute pyelonephritis and septic abortion.
(7) The results of ceruloplasmin, haptoglobin and sialic acid assays could be used as an index for the activity of the pathologic process, as well as in the differential diagnosis between pyelonephritis and glomerulonephritis.
(8) Sixteen of these infections were caused by a strain identical to the one that gave rise to the original acute pyelonephritis.
(9) The clinical history of acute pyelonephritis, avascular mass lesion of the kidney with ipsilateral pleural effusion (triad) seen in a female patient of child-bearing age is characteristic of this condition.
(10) In this system, retrograde E coli pyelonephritis developed from a combination of two factors: (1) reflux-induced damage to the renal pelvis so that E coli are introduced into the kidney and (2) hematogenous infection of the damaged kidney.
(11) US is inexpensive, easily obtainable in the emergency room, and sensitive enough to screen patients with pyelonephritis for complications.
(12) These studies indicated that the major antibody response in humans occurs after pyelonephritis and is directed against LPS.
(13) The animals with untreated infection had an antibody response that lasted a sufficient period of time to prevent acute pyelonephritis after renal challenge.
(14) Satisfactory results have been obtained in patients with normal as well as dilated ureters, with no serious operative complications, no episodes of pyelonephritis and no renal deterioration.
(15) Spells of hyperchloremic acidosis had occurred in 13 patients during the follow-up period and always coincided with attacks of acute pyelonephritis and renal deterioration, often accompanied by irregularities in the substitution.
(16) No difference was established regarding the occurrence of Rh incompatibility, pyelonephritis of the pregnant women, iron deficit anaemia, and gestosis during pregnancy.
(17) There were six patients with staghorn calculi and chronic pyelonephritis, four with pyohydronephrosis, eight with acute and chronic pyelonephritis, and two with xanthogranulomatous pyelonephritis.
(18) Serum antibodies specific for the bacteria isolated from the urines of 41 patients with chronic pyelonephritis and 14 with asymptomatic bacteriuria were assayed.
(19) Pyelonephritis developed in five kidneys, two of which had outflow obstruction and two had bilateral hydroureteronephrosis before the UCA.
(20) Pregnant women with acute pyelonephritis should be hospitalized and treated with parenteral antibiotics.