Diseases

Membranoproliferative Glomerulonephritis

Chronic glomerulonephritis characterized histologically by proliferation of MESANGIAL CELLS, increase in the MESANGIAL EXTRACELLULAR MATRIX, and a thickening of the glomerular capillary walls. This may appear as a primary disorder or secondary to other diseases including infections and autoimmune disease SYSTEMIC LUPUS ERYTHEMATOSUS. Various subtypes are classified by their abnormal ultrastructures and immune deposits. Hypocomplementemia is a characteristic feature of all types of MPGN.

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Chronic glomerulonephritis characterized histologically by proliferation of MESANGIAL CELLS, increase in the MESANGIAL EXTRACELLULAR MATRIX, and a thickening of the glomerular capillary walls. This may appear as a primary disorder or secondary to other diseases including infections and autoimmune disease SYSTEMIC LUPUS ERYTHEMATOSUS. Various subtypes are classified by their abnormal ultrastructures and immune deposits. Hypocomplementemia is a characteristic feature of all types of MPGN.

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  • Glomerulonephritis, Hypocomplementemic
  • Glomerulonephritis, Membranoproliferative
  • Glomerulonephritis, Mesangiocapillary
  • MPGN Membranoproliferative Glomerulonephritis
  • Mesangiocapillary Glomerulonephritis
  • Glomerulonephritides, MPGN Membranoproliferative
  • Glomerulonephritides, Membranoproliferative
  • Glomerulonephritis, MPGN Membranoproliferative
  • Hypocomplementemic Glomerulonephritides
  • Hypocomplementemic Glomerulonephritis
  • MPGN Membranoproliferative Glomerulonephritides
  • Membranoproliferative Glomerulonephritides
  • Membranoproliferative Glomerulonephritides, MPGN
  • Membranoproliferative Glomerulonephritis, MPGN
  • Mesangiocapillary Glomerulonephritides
  • C3G Complement 3 Glomerulopathy
  • Complement 3 Glomerulopathies
  • Complement 3 Glomerulopathy
  • DDD MPGNII
  • Dense Deposit Disease
  • MPGNII
  • Membranoproliferative Glomerulonephritis Type II
  • Membranoproliferative Glomerulonephritis, Type I
  • Membranoproliferative Glomerulonephritis, Type II
  • Membranoproliferative Glomerulonephritis, Type III
  • Mesangiocapillary Glomerulonephritis, Type I
  • Mesangiocapillary Glomerulonephritis, Type II
  • Subendothelial Membranoproliferative Glomerulonephritis
  • Type II MPGN
  • DDD MPGNIIs
  • Glomerulopathies, Complement 3
  • Glomerulopathy, Complement 3
  • MPGN, Type II
  • MPGNII, DDD
  • MPGNIIs
  • Membranoproliferative Glomerulonephritis, Subendothelial
  • Type II MPGNs

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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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do not confuse with GLOMERULONEPHRITIS, MEMBRANOUS; do not make diagnoses: use the term used by the author

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  • Glomerulonephritis (1969-1988)

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References

  1. National Library of Medicine. Membranoproliferative Glomerulonephritis. Medical Subject Headings (MeSH). 2026. Unique ID D015432. http://id.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/2026/D015432
  2. Membranoproliferative Glomerulonephritis. In: Wikipedia. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Membranoproliferative_glomerulonephritis
  3. Membranoproliferative Glomerulonephritis. In: Wikidata. https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q2299379