noun
definition
Inflammation of the kidney.
Examples of nephritis in a Sentence
Mild cases of lupus nephritis can often simply be observed without any specific treatment; in such cases a biopsy is unnecessary.
This condition is not so frequently seen in the more highly differentiated cells, but may follow necrosis of secreting cells, as is found in the kidney, in corrosive sublimate poisoning and in chronic nephritis.
The acetate and the citrate are valuable mild diuretics in Bright's disease and in feverish conditions, and by increasing the amount of urine diminish the pathological fluids in pleuritic effusion, ascites, &c. In tubal nephritis they aid the excretion of fatty casts.
It is sometimes called membranous nephritis or membranous glomerulonephritis.
My kidney biopsy showed mesangial nephritis and it responded well to steroids.
Widal, Lemierre and other French observers have noted a diminution in the excretion of chlorides in nephritis associated with oedema; Widal and Javal found that a chloride-free diet caused diminution in the oedema and a chloride containing diet an increase of oedema.
A proportion of Lupus nephritis patients in endstage renal failure still require immunosuppression.
For example, there is evidence that subsets of anti-DNA antibodies cause lupus nephritis.
On the other hand it is possible that many patients identified as having hypertensive renal disease actually have indolent nephritis.
The other 2, who presented 10 days after consumption of the mushrooms, developed severe interstitial nephritis and did not recover renal function.
Large kidneys may indicate an acute or crescentic nephritis that may require urgent treatment.
Cases of interstitial nephritis have been reported which have sometimes resulted in renal failure.
He died in Sydney of chronic nephritis on 23 January 1930 leaving an estate valued for probate at £ 14 644.
Their research will include other breeds as well, but they are only investigating hereditary nephritis.
Up to top Chronic interstitial nephritis Chronic means something that continues without going away.
Nephritis ranges from asymptomatic proteinuria (presence of protein in the urine) to sudden onset of renal insufficiency.
This increased osmotic pressure is again due to accumulation of crystalloids in the tissues, either products of metabolism due to deficient oxidation from alteration in the blood or other cause, or, it may be, as in some cases of nephritis, owing to a.
The most serious complication of AP is kidney inflammation (nephritis), which occurs in almost half of older affected children.
Allergic reactions to drugs are the most common cause of an inflammation of the kidneys called tubulointerstitial nephritis.
If nephritis be present, it may be seriously aggravated, and the drug must therefore be withheld.