Causes of Acute Glomerulonephritis
- Infectious diseases
- Poststreptococcal glomerulonephritisa
- Nonstreptococcal postinfectious glomerulonephritis
- Bacterial: infective endocarditis, shunt nephritis, sepsis, pneumococcal pneumonia, typhoid fever, secondary syphilis, meningococcemia
- Viral: hepatitis B, infectious mononucleosis, mumps, measles, varicella, vaccinia, echovirus, and coxsackievirus
- Parasitic: malaria, toxoplasmosis
- IgA dominant postinfectious glomerulonephritisusually poststaphylococcal
- Multisystem diseases: SLE, vasculitis, Henoch-Schönlein purpura, Goodpasture's syndrome
- Primary glomerular diseases: mesangiocapillary glomerulonephritis, Berger's disease (IgA nephropathy), pure mesangial proliferative glomerulonephritis
- Miscellaneous: Guillain-Barré syndrome, irradiation of Wilms' tumor, self-administered diphtheria-pertussis-tetanus vaccine, serum sickness
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Source: RJ Glassock, BM Brenner: HPIM-13.