Talk:Glomerulonephritis

Nephritic / Nephrotic

Someone please correct me if I'm wrong (a quote from Robbins would suffice) but I believe MPGN is more often listed as nephritic picture. Clearly the glomerulonephritidies are a continuum, and Membranoproliferative GN can (and often does) progress to Nephrotic syndrome. However, if I remember correctly from lecture, it presents as 60% -itic and 40% -otic. Assuming I can get a consensus, it should be fixed both on this page and on the Membranoproliferative page itself (as well as the pathology charts at the bottom of the pages). Dryphi (talk) 03:29, 9 November 2010 (UTC)

Merge nephritis

Quote from emedicine: "Nephritis is an older term used to clinically denote a child with hypertension, decreased renal function, hematuria, and edema. Technically, nephritis suggests a noninfectious inflammatory process involving the nephron; glomerulonephritis (GN) generally is a more precise term." --WS 21:52, 22 November 2005 (UTC)

So what about interstitial nephritis? JFW | T@lk 21:59, 22 November 2005 (UTC)

I oppose the merge, but I've added a "Subtypes" section to Nephritis, which could help provide clarification. Wikipedia already had a pyelonephritis page, so I added that to the list too. --Arcadian 22:34, 22 November 2005 (UTC)

Ok, that is a quick answer. I removed the notices on top of the articles. --WS 22:56, 22 November 2005 (UTC)

Shouldn't nephrotic syndromes (such as minimal change and focal glomerulosclerosis) be separated - either in a separate article or in a separate section of this article - from nephritic syndromes aka glomerulonephritis? Moreoever, given the material - the heading of glomerulonephritis is inexact and misleading. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 74.229.67.200 (talk) 00:33, 28 April 2008 (UTC) ,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,

The term "Glomerulonephritis" encompasses both nephrotic and nephritic picture.Dryphi (talk) 06:59, 11 November 2010 (UTC)

Language

Can someone simplify the language in this article? I can hardly understand it, and it looks like it was copied out of a scientific journal. SCHZMO ✍ 21:02, 1 June 2006 (UTC)

Seconded 69.181.120.218 07:24, 22 September 2006 (UTC)

Thirded. Many people are going to be looking this up wanting to know real world information such as how you know you have it (bubbles in the water when you urinate from the excreted albumin), what treatment is, outlook, how you get it etc. I think that info is much more useful than the specific medical backround. Anybody who wants to know the medical specifics most likely already has the knoweldge of knowing how to look that stuff up. -Ryan Rjkd12 22:45, 10 October 2006 (UTC)

External Link

User: Beetstra has removed my external link as he has stated it does not follow Wikipedia guidelines. Wikipedia guidelines state that: "Wikipedia articles can include links to Web pages outside Wikipedia. Such pages could contain further research that is accurate and on-topic; information that could not be added to the article for reasons such as copyright or amount of detail (such as professional athlete statistics, movie or television credits, interview transcripts, or online textbooks); or other meaningful, relevant content that is not suitable for inclusion in an article (such as reviews and interviews)".

I believe that information found at the UNC Kidney Center on glomerular diseases is beneficial to Wiki readers as it related glomerular disease and glomerulonephritis in a "patient-friendly" way. Please feel free to visit and see for yourself: http://unckidneycenter.org/patients/glom_disease.htm. I would appreciate any feedback.

--Unckc 21:50, 5 April 2007 (UTC)Unckc

dosage

1.5 ml salt water from the well 2 grams of suger a table spoon of cought medication

Thin Basement Membrane Disease??

Could someone please give some context for this disease? How does it relate to GN? Why is there a justification for adding it to this article? VetLH (talk) 08:20, 12 August 2009 (UTC)

What does the abbreviation "resp." stand for ...

in the sentence toward the beginning of the article: "(blood resp. protein in the urine)"? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 71.101.144.206 (talk) 00:11, 5 June 2010 (UTC)

I believe it was a typo, intended to say "or esp." (ie "or especially"). I have modified it to read "blood or protein in the urine" which is the intent of the parenthesized material. Dryphi (talk) 06:51, 11 November 2010 (UTC)

Cells involved

doi:10.2215/​CJN.13791215 CJASN JFW | T@lk 08:07, 8 September 2016 (UTC)