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01-06-2016 | Guideline
Evidence-based clinical practice guidelines for rapidly progressive glomerulonephritis 2014
Authors:
Yoshihiro Arimura, Eri Muso, Shoichi Fujimoto, Midori Hasegawa, Shinya Kaname, Joichi Usui, Toshiko Ihara, Masaki Kobayashi, Mitsuyo Itabashi, Kiyoki Kitagawa, Junichi Hirahashi, Kenjiro Kimura, Seiichi Matsuo
Published in:
Clinical and Experimental Nephrology
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Issue 3/2016
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Excerpt
Rapidly progressive glomerulonephritis (RPGN) is defined in Japan as “a syndrome that progresses rapidly within a few weeks or months to renal failure and is accompanied by urinary findings of nephritis.” The clinical concept of RPGN includes various renal diseases that cause renal function to deteriorate over a subacute course. Necrotizing crescentic glomerulonephritis is often observed in histopathological findings. …