Post meningococcal acute glomerular nephritis.
A case of meningococcal meningitis is described in which 10 days later there developed the histological lesions of acute exsudative proliferative glomerular nephritis without proteinuria, hematuria, hypertension or salt and water retention. The relationship between structural and functional changes in the kidney in glomerular nephritis is discussed in the light of these findings.
D000208:Acute Disease; D000293:Adolescent; D001168:Arthritis / Q000150:complications; D001706:Biopsy; D003176:Complement C3 / Q000032:analysis; D005921:Glomerulonephritis / Q000209:etiology* / Q000276:immunology / Q000473:pathology; D006801:Humans; D007678:Kidney Glomerulus / Q000276:immunology / Q000473:pathology; D008297:Male; D008585:Meningitis, Meningococcal / Q000150:complications*
D003176:Complement C3