1 Gulhane Military Medical Academy Department of Nephrology, Ankara, Turkey 2 Gulhane Military Medical Academy, Department of Internal Medicine Ankara, Turkey aBSTRaCT aım: Elderly patients with renal disease have recently attracted increased attention. There has also been an increase in renal biopsies in these patients. The aim of this study was to investigate the influence of the renal biopsy...

Aim: Glomerulonephritis remains the most probable underlying cause of end stage renal disease of uncertain aetiology in many developing countries, including Bangladesh. The pattern of glomerular disease varies widely from country to country. In Bangladesh, the incidence and histological pattern of glomerulonephritis is inadequately described. We performed a study, aiming to determine pattern of...

A 72-year-old woman with a past medical history of nontuberculous mycobacteria (NTM) pulmonary disease was admitted because of hemoptysis and acute renal failure. A chest X-ray showed interstitial infiltration over bilateral lung fields. Kidney biopsy showed immune complex-mediated acute diffuse proliferative glomerulonephritis with 48% crescents and glomerular endocapillary hypercellularity wi...

Salmonella infections are observed frequently in the childhood age group and mostly characterized with gastrointestinal findings. Extraintestinal involvement is observed rarely (8%) (1). Renal involvement has been defined in approximately 3% of the patients. Pyelonephritis, cystitis, hemolytic uremic syndrome, acute renal failure and rarely glomerulonephritis have been reported as urinary syste...

The prevalence of postinfectious glomerulonephritis has decreased in most developed countries. We report the case of a previously healthy, immunocompetent 65-year-old woman who developed acute glomerulonephritis associated with human parvovirus B19 infection. She was referred by her primary care physician for suspected congestive heart failure but she had an elevated creatinine level and an abn...

Conflicting opinions have been expressed as to the mechanism of pulmonary and peripheral congestion frequently observed in the oliguric stage of acute glomerulonephritis. Hemodynamic studies in 7 patients studied during the oliguric edematous phase of the disease demonstrated that these patients have high ventricular filling pressures associated with an increase in cardiac output and are, there...

Hospitalists and primary care physicians encounter renal disease daily. Although most cases of acute kidney injury (AKI) are secondary to dehydration and resolve by giving fluids, many cases of AKI are due to not uncommon but unfamiliar causes needing nephrology evaluation. Common indications to consult a nephrologist on an emergency basis include hyperkalemia or volume overload in end stage re...