What is Glomerulonephritis?

What is Glomerulonephritis?

• Glomerulonephritis: Kidney disease where the kidney's have problems removing waste material and excessive fluid.
• Glomerulonephritis: glomerular disease characterized by an inflammatory reaction, with leukocyte infiltration and cellular proliferation of the glomeruli, or that appears to be the result of immune glomerular injury.
  Source - Diseases Database
• Glomerulonephritis: nephritis marked by inflammation of the glomeruli of the kidney; characterized by decreased production of urine and by the presence of blood and protein in the urine and by edema.
  Source - WordNet 2.1

Glomerulonephritis is listed as a "rare disease" by the Office of Rare Diseases (ORD) of the National Institutes of Health (NIH). This means that Glomerulonephritis, or a subtype of Glomerulonephritis, affects less than 200,000 people in the US population.
Source - National Institutes of Health (NIH)

Glomerulonephritis: Introduction

Types of Glomerulonephritis:

Types of Glomerulonephritis:

• Acute glomerulonephritis
• Chronic glomerulonephritis
• Primary Glomerulonephritis - an autoimmune disease
• Post streptococcal glomerulonephritis
• IgA Glomerulonephritis
• more types...»

Broader types of Glomerulonephritis:

• Kidney conditions
• Glomerular Disease
• Nephritis
• more types...»

Who gets Glomerulonephritis?

Patient Profile for Glomerulonephritis: Often children age 1-11 but any age possible.

How serious is Glomerulonephritis?

Complications of Glomerulonephritis: see complications of Glomerulonephritis

What causes Glomerulonephritis?

Causes of Glomerulonephritis: see causes of Glomerulonephritis

What are the symptoms of Glomerulonephritis?

Symptoms of Glomerulonephritis: see symptoms of Glomerulonephritis

Complications of Glomerulonephritis: see complications of Glomerulonephritis

Incubation period for Glomerulonephritis: About 2-3 weeks after streptococcal infection for post-streptococcal glomerulonephritis

Can anyone else get Glomerulonephritis?

Inheritance: see inheritance of Glomerulonephritis

Glomerulonephritis: Testing

Diagnostic testing: see tests for Glomerulonephritis.

Misdiagnosis: see misdiagnosis and Glomerulonephritis.

How is it treated?

Treatments for Glomerulonephritis: see treatments for Glomerulonephritis
Research for Glomerulonephritis: see research for Glomerulonephritis

Organs Affected by Glomerulonephritis:

Organs and body systems related to Glomerulonephritis include:

• Kidney

Name and Aliases of Glomerulonephritis

Main name of condition: Glomerulonephritis

Bright's disease Source - Diseases Database

Research the causes of these diseases that are similar to, or related to, Glomerulonephritis:

• Post streptococcal glomerulonephritis
• Hematuria
• Hypertension
• Nephritic syndrome
• Nephrotic syndrome
• Hyaline casts
• Red cell casts

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