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etiology of glomerulonephritis
Etiology:
1) idiopathic glomerulonephritis (GN)
- membranoproliferative GN
- idiopathic crescentic GN
- IgA nephropathy*
2) secondary glomerulonephritis (GN)
- bacterial infection
- endocarditis*
- post-streptococcal* GN
- visceral abscess
- sepsis*
- pneumococcal pneumonia
- typhoid fever
- secondary syphilis
- meningiococcemia
- viral infection
- hepatitis B
- infectious mononucleosis
- mumps
- measles
- varicella
- vaccinia
- echovirus
- coxsackievirus
- parasitic infection
- malaria
- toxoplasmosis
- connective tissue disease
- systemic lupus erythematosus*
- vasculitis*
- Wegener's granulomatosis
- polyarteritis nodosa
- microscopic polyangiitis
- Henoch Schonlein purpura*
- Goodpasture's syndrome
- cryoglobulinemia
- multiple myeloma
- serum sickness
- Alport's syndrome
- hemolytic uremic syndrome
- Guillain-Barre syndrome
- radiation of Wilm's tumor
- diphtheria-pertussis-tetanus (DPT) vaccine
* most common etiologies
Related
glomerulonephritis (GN, nephritic syndrome)
References
Harrison's Principles of Internal Medicine, 13th ed.
Isselbacher et al (eds), McGraw-Hill Inc. NY, 1994, pg 1295