chronic idiopathic glomerulonephritis and pregnancy

Circulating HBsAg/IgG Complexes in idiopathic Chronic Glomerulonephritis

We measured HBsAg/IgG complexes (CX) quantitatively by ELISA from HBsAg positive serum of 35 liver disease patients, 15 patients with glomerular diseases (8 membranous glomerulonephritis (MGN) 7 membranoproliferative glomerulonephritis (MPGN), and 50 healthy carriers of HBsAg. HbsAg/IgG CX was detected in 26 out of 35 liver disease patients (74.3%), 5 out of 50 healthy carriers (10%), and one o...

Chapter 8: Idiopathic membranoproliferative glomerulonephritis

BACKGROUND MPGN is a light-microscopic ‘‘pattern of injury’’ caused by many disorders (see Table 20). Patients commonly present with nephrotic syndrome, hypertension, glomerular hematuria, and progressive kidney dysfunction. Reduction in the serum concentration of complement components (C3 and/or C4) is commonly, but not uniformly, observed. MPGN can be further classified based on the extent an...

Idiopathic membranous glomerulonephritis: aspects of geographical differences.

Clinicopathological studies of 89 cases of idiopathic membranous glomerulonephritis was carried out to investigate the clinical and histopathological characteristics of the disease. The results were compared with those of previous published reports to observe whether any difference between Japanese and caucasian patients exists. There were no obvious differences as to main clinical features, al...

Complete remission in idiopathic membranous glomerulonephritis.

[Chronic glomerulonephritis syndrome (CGNS)].

Chronic glomerulonephritis syndrome is one of clinical classification in primary glomerulonephritis. Clinical classification of primary glomerulonephritis consists of five groups. (WHO 1995) They are acute nephritic syndrome, rapidly progressive nephritic syndrome, recurrent or persistent hematuria (proteinuria), chronic nephritic syndrome, and nephrotic syndrome. After therapy or renal biopsy,...

Pulmonary Embolism Revealing Idiopathic Membranous Glomerulonephritis

We describe a case of a 55-year-old man who presented with pulmonary embolism and who was found to have nephrotic syndrome due to idiopathic membranous nephropathy. There are no other signs of nephrotic syndrome such as edema.