0 a kidney disease in which the glomeruli (= tiny blood vessels that remove waste products from the blood into the urine) are inflamed: --
With age these animals developed a glomerulonephritis phenotype associated with a 30% reduction in life expectancy.
Less common manifestations include splenomegaly, hematuria and glomerulonephritis.
When present in excessive amounts disease states suchas rheumatoid arthritis, glomerulonephritis, and even atherosclerosis may be potentiated.
Cyclophosphamide is used for severe glomerulonephritis or other organ-damaging complications.
Rarer complications of disseminated chickenpox also include myocarditis, hepatitis, and glomerulonephritis.
These autoimmune-mediated complications follow a small percentage of infections and include rheumatic fever and acute postinfectious glomerulonephritis.
Similarly, an immune complex mechanism is most probably responsible for the acute arthropathy and may also be the cause of more unusual manifestations such as glomerulonephritis and brachial plexus neuropathy.
However, 99 % of the acute glomerulonephritis admissions were to fully enumerated hospitals, and therefore the influence of sampling would be small.
