Nephritic syndrome, rapidly progressive: Difference between revisions

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== Additional Info ==

*Rapidly progressive glomerulonephritis (RPGN) is a clinical syndrome manifested by features of glomerular disease in the urinalysis and by progressive loss of renal function over a comparatively short period of time (days to weeks). It is most commonly characterized morphologically by extensive crescent formation

* Nephritic syndrome is a syndrome comprising signs of nephritis, which is kidney disease involving inflammation. It often occurs in the glomerulus, where it is called glomerulonephritis. Glomerulonephritis is characterized by inflammation and thinning of the glomerular basement membrane and the occurrence of small pores in the podocytes of the glomerulus. These pores become large enough to permit both proteins and red blood cells to pass into the urine (yielding proteinuria and hematuria, respectively). The cause of this inflammation can be infectious, autoimmune, or thrombotic. If the cause is known then code it in combination with this code.

*By contrast, nephrotic syndrome is characterized by proteinuria and a constellation of other symptoms that specifically do not include hematuria.

* Nephritic syndrome, like nephrotic syndrome, may involve low level of albumin in the blood due to the protein albumin moving from the blood to the urine.

* a classic cause of GN (especially Nephritic syndrome, rapidly progressive is as an immune after-effect of Strep infection, so-called Post-strep GN). To code this we will add a new code B98, to be called [[Other specified infectious agents as the cause of diseases classified by other ICD10 code]] -- this new code, with the appropriate Streptoccus code, is then combined with the appropriate Nephritic syndrome code to get Post-strep GN

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 == Additional Info ==
+*Rapidly progressive glomerulonephritis (RPGN) is a clinical syndrome manifested by features of glomerular disease in the urinalysis and by progressive loss of renal function over a comparatively short period of time (days to weeks). It is most commonly characterized morphologically by extensive crescent formation
+*  Nephritic syndrome is a syndrome comprising signs of nephritis, which is kidney disease involving inflammation. It often occurs in the glomerulus, where it is called glomerulonephritis. Glomerulonephritis is characterized by inflammation and thinning of the glomerular basement membrane and the occurrence of small pores in the podocytes of the glomerulus. These pores become large enough to permit both proteins and red blood cells to pass into the urine (yielding proteinuria and hematuria, respectively). The cause of this inflammation can be infectious, autoimmune, or thrombotic.  If the cause is known then code it in combination with this code.
+*By contrast, nephrotic syndrome is characterized by proteinuria and a constellation of other symptoms that specifically do not include hematuria.
+* Nephritic syndrome, like nephrotic syndrome, may involve low level of albumin in the blood due to the protein albumin moving from the blood to the urine.
+* a classic cause of GN (especially Nephritic syndrome, rapidly progressive is as an immune after-effect of Strep infection, so-called Post-strep GN). To code this we will add a new code B98, to be called [[Other specified infectious agents as the cause of diseases classified by other ICD10 code]] -- this new code, with the appropriate Streptoccus code, is then combined with the appropriate Nephritic syndrome code to get Post-strep GN
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