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Nephritic syndrome is a syndrome comprising signs of nephritis, which is kidney disease involving inflammation. It often occurs in the glomerulus, where it is called glomerulonephritis. Glomerulonephritis is characterized by inflammation and thinning of the glomerular basement membrane and the occurrence of small pores in the podocytes of the ...
Alport syndrome is a genetic disorder [1] affecting around 1 in 5,000–10,000 children, [2] characterized by glomerulonephritis, end-stage kidney disease, and hearing loss. [3] Alport syndrome can also affect the eyes, though the changes do not usually affect vision, except when changes to the lens occur in later life. Blood in urine is universal.
It also differs from the nephrotic syndrome that often develops in young individuals with childhood-onset systemic lupus erythematosus, i.e., cSLE. cSLE is a form of systemic lupus erythematosus that develops in children up to 18 years of age. It frequently involves lupus nephritis and secondary to that the nephrotic syndrome due to severe ...
Worldwide, the highest rates [clarification needed] of nephritis are 50–55% for African or Asian descent followed by Hispanic at 43% and Caucasian at 17%. [20] The average age of an individual diagnosed with kidney inflammation (in this case, lupus nephritis) is 28.4 years old. [21]
Minimal change disease (MCD), also known as lipoid nephrosis or nil disease, among others, is a disease affecting the kidneys which causes nephrotic syndrome. [1] Nephrotic syndrome leads to the loss of significant amounts of protein to the urine (proteinuria), which causes the widespread edema (soft tissue swelling) and impaired kidney function commonly experienced by those affected by the ...
Affected children have rapid decline in kidney function resulting in end-stage renal disease within the first years of life, and require treatment with dialysis and kidney transplantation. [ 1 ] [ 4 ] Most children live fairly normal life post-transplant but will spend significant time hospitalised pre-transplant and have numerous surgeries to ...
The patient was a twenty-six-year-old female who was diagnosed with thrombocytopaenia with purpura at age four. She was then finally diagnosed with Epstein syndrome at twenty-two years old when she developed symptoms for hearing loss as well as proteinuria and hematuria revealing poor kidney function. After an oral examination, palatal purpua ...
Chronic kidney disease (CKD) is a type of long-term kidney disease, in which either there is a gradual loss of kidney function which occurs over a period of months to years, or an abnormal kidney structure (with normal function).