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Abstract
Inflammation of the renal glomeruli (KIDNEY GLOMERULUS) that can be classified by the type of glomerular injuries including antibody deposition, complement activation, cellular proliferation, and glomerulosclerosis. These structural and functional abnormalities usually lead to HEMATURIA; PROTEINURIA; HYPERTENSION; and RENAL INSUFFICIENCY.
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- Kidney Scarring
- Glomerulonephritides
- Scarring, Kidney
- Bright Disease
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Indexed with the subheadings blood, cerebrospinal fluid, chemically induced, classification, complications, congenital, diagnosis, diagnostic imaging, diet therapy, drug therapy, economics, embryology, enzymology, epidemiology, ethnology, etiology, genetics, history, immunology, metabolism, microbiology, mortality, nursing, parasitology, pathology, physiopathology, prevention & control, psychology, radiotherapy, rehabilitation, surgery, therapy, urine, veterinary, virology.
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BRIGHT DISEASE was BRIGHT'S DISEASE see NEPHRITIS 1963-78
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- National Library of Medicine. Glomerulonephritis. Medical Subject Headings (MeSH). 2026. Unique ID D005921. http://id.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/2026/D005921
- Glomerulonephritis. In: Wikipedia. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glomerulonephritis
- Glomerulonephritis. In: Wikidata. https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q605006