The Treatment of Glomerulonephritis

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Pusey, C. D. (Editor)
• Format: Electronic
• Language: English
• Published: Dordrecht : Springer Netherlands, 1999.
• Series: Developments in Nephrology ; 40
• Subjects: Medicine.; Immunology.; Pharmacology.; Internal medicine.; Nephrology.; Pathology.; Medicine & Public Health.; Internal Medicine.; Pharmacology/Toxicology.
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Glomerulonephritis is one of the commonest causes of end-stage renal failure worldwide. Although there have been considerable advances in the management of renal failure by dialysis and transplantation, there has been relatively little progress in its prevention. This volume sets out to review curre...

Table of Contents:

• Immune mechanisms in glomerulonephritis
• Pathology of glomerulonephritis
• Minimal change disease and focal segmental glomerulosclerosis
• Membranous glomerulopathy
• Mesangiocapillary glomerulonephritis
• IgA nephropathy and Henoch-Schönlein purpura
• Crescentic glomerulonephritis and systemic vasculitis
• Treatment of glomerulonephritis in systemic disease
• Recurrence of glomerulonephritis following renal transplantation
• Glomerulonephritis in pregnancy.