Article
Pan-nephritis (glomerulonephritis, arteriolitis, and tubulointerstitial nephritis) associated with predominant mesangial C1q deposition and hypocomplementemia: a variant type of C1q nephropathy?
American journal of kidney diseases : the official journal of the National Kidney Foundation - 1 Apr 1996
Imai H, Yasuda T, Satoh K, Miura A B, Sugawara T, Nakamoto Y
Abstract excerpt
A 35-year-old man showed acute nephritic syndrome manifested as proteinuria, hematuria, and hypocomplementemia after upper respiratory infection. A renal biopsy showed mild to moderate mesangial proliferative glomerulonephritis with an accumulation of mononuclear cells in the capillary loop and w...
Topics
- Adult
- Arterioles
- Arteritis
- Biopsy
- Complement C1q
- Complement C3
- Diagnosis, Differential
- Fibrinogen
- Glomerular Mesangium
- Glomerulonephritis, Membranoproliferative
- Humans
- Immunoglobulin A
- Immunoglobulin G
- Immunoglobulin M
