Crescentic Glomerulonephritis with Tubercular Lymphadenitis

Scleroderma with crescentic glomerulonephritis: a case report

INTRODUCTION Systemic sclerosis or scleroderma is an autoimmune rheumatic disease characterized by organ-based fibrosis. Renal involvement in scleroderma occurs mainly in the form of scleroderma renal crisis, affecting 5 to 10% of patients. It remains one of the most important and immediately life-threatening complications of scleroderma, but the prognosis improves considerably after treatment ...

Alveolar Hemorrhage Associated with Crescentic Glomerulonephritis

Membranous glomerulonephritis with ANCA-associated necrotizing and crescentic glomerulonephritis.

BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVES Only rare cases of concurrent membranous glomerulonephritis (MGN) and antineutrophil cytoplasmic antibody (ANCA)-associated necrotizing and crescentic glomerulonephritis (NCGN) have been reported. DESIGN, SETTING, PARTICIPANTS, & MEASUREMENTS The authors report the clinical and pathologic findings in 14 patients with MGN and ANCA-associated NCGN. RESULTS The cohort...

MMP2 and MMP9 associate with crescentic glomerulonephritis

Background: Systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE) is a systemic autoimmune disease characterized by multiple organ involvement. Lupus nephritis (LN) is a common manifestation with a wide variety of histological appearances. Matrix metalloproteinases (MMP) 2 and 9 are gelatinases capable of degrading glomerular basement membrane type IV collagen, which have been associated with LN. We examine the e...

Normocalcaemic hepatorenal sarcoidosis with crescentic glomerulonephritis.

mellitus with a weight loss of 14 kg over 3 months. His history was unremarkably and included a pacemaker implantation 2 years before, without laboratory abnormalities. Because the islet-cell antibodies were