Rapidly progressive glomerulonephritis complicating acute rheumatic fever.

Rapidly progressive glomerulonephritis complicating primary AL amyloidosis and multiple myeloma.

Crescentic glomerulonephritis is a rare complication of AA amyloidosis. There are no clinical case reports of this complicating AL amyloidosis. A 67-year-old man developed rapidly progressive glomerulonephritis (RPGN) on a background of primary AL amyloidosis and IgGkappa multiple myeloma. Investigations for causes of glomerulonephritis were negative, and a renal biopsy confirmed crescentic glo...

Acute Rheumatic Fever Complicating Thoracoplasty Operation

Rapidly Progressive Glomerulonephritis

Rapidly Progressive Glomerulonephritis are a group of renal diseases which are still posing serious threat to human health and survival. They are all characterised by acute and rapid deterioration of renal function. Renal biopsy reveals extracapillary glomerulonephritis, most frequently circumferential and diffuse, and immunofluorescence findings continue to represent the most important clue to...

The Streptococcus, Rheumatic Fever and Glomerulonephritis

Spontaneous recovery from rapidly progressive glomerulonephritis.

small meals (owing to distortion of the stomach and cardio-oesophageal junction); and (5) an abdominal fluid thrill but no shifting dullness, indicating a localised collection of fluid and clotted blood. The likely pathogenesis of the haemorrhage is over-distension of the stomach with tearing of a small blood vessel in the lesser omentum. The blood tracks inferiorly, stripping peritoneum from t...