Harrison's Manual of Medicine 17/e

Table 150-1: Causes of Acute Glomerulonephritis

Table 150-1

  • Infectious diseases
    • Poststreptococcal glomerulonephritisa
    • Nonstreptococcal postinfectious glomerulonephritis
      • Bacterial: infective endocarditis, "shunt nephritis," sepsis, pneumococcal pneumonia, typhoid fever, secondary syphilis, meningococcemia
      • Viral: hepatitis B, infectious mononucleosis, mumps, measles, varicella, vaccinia, echovirus, and coxsackievirus
      • Parasitic: malaria, toxoplasmosis
  • Multisystem diseases: SLE, vasculitis, Henoch-Schönlein purpura, Goodpasture’s syndrome
  • Primary glomerular diseases: mesangiocapillary glomerulonephritis, Berger’s disease (IgA nephropathy), "pure" mesangial proliferative glomerulonephritis
  • Miscellaneous: Guillain-Barré syndrome, irradiation of Wilms’ tumor, self-administered diphtheria-pertussis-tetanus vaccine, serum sickness

aMost common cause.
Note: SLE, systemic lupus erythematosus.
Source: RJ Glassock, BM Brenner: HPIM-13

Chapter:
Glomerular Diseases

Table 150-1: Causes of Acute Glomerulonephritis has been found in Harrison's Manual of Medicine 17/e

If you are a registered user, please login below.

If not, learn more about gaining full access.

Login




Forgot your password?

Forgot your username?



Try
Harrison's Manual of Medicine Online provides instant access to 600+ internal medicine topics in a rapid-access format.

View these topics online FREE

[Top]

Table 150-1: Causes of Acute Glomerulonephritis
Last updated: May 11, 2009
Content Manager
Related Content
Acute Glomerulonephritis GN