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Acute Postinfectious Glomerulonephritis in Children

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Abstract

Postinfectious glomerulonephritis (PIGN) comprises a large group of glomerulonephridities that are caused by infectious agents. Acute glomerulonephritis is a term that defines a pathological lesion that may be asymptomatic or it may be manifested clinically with the acute nephritic syndrome, or the nephrotic syndrome, or with a rapidly progressive renal failure.

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Rodríguez-Iturbe, B., Najafian, B., Silva, A., Alpers, C.E. (2016). Acute Postinfectious Glomerulonephritis in Children. In: Avner, E., Harmon, W., Niaudet, P., Yoshikawa, N., Emma, F., Goldstein, S. (eds) Pediatric Nephrology. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-662-43596-0_27

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