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Postinfectious Glomerulonephritis

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Acute postinfectious glomerulonephritis is a kidney disease that follows after an infection. The most common and best understood form of acute postinfectious glomerulonephritis is poststreptococcal glomerulonephritis. Less is known about the other forms of postinfectious glomerulonephritis. In addition, there are glomerulonephritides that occur during persistent bacterial infections such as bacterial endocarditis, deep abscesses, and infected atrioventricular shunts in hydrocephalus (1).

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Editors and Affiliations

  1. Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Nashville, TN, USA

    Agnes B. Fogo M.D.

  2. Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, UCLA School of Medicine, Los Angeles, CA, USA

    Arthur H. Cohen M.D.

  3. University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, NC, USA

    J. Charles Jennette M.D.

  4. Leiden University Medical Center, Leiden, the Netherlands

    Jan A. Bruijn M.D., Ph.D.

  5. Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, MA, USA

    Robert B. Colvin M.D.

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Bruijn, J.A. (2006). Postinfectious Glomerulonephritis. In: Fogo, A.B., Cohen, A.H., Jennette, J.C., Bruijn, J.A., Colvin, R.B. (eds) Fundamentals of Renal Pathology. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-0-387-31127-2_5

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