nephropathy

[nə′fräp·ə·thē]

(medicine)

Any disease of the kidney.

The following article is from The Great Soviet Encyclopedia (1979). It might be outdated or ideologically biased.

Nephropathy

a general term that includes several renal disorders. Classified as nephropathies are nephropathy of pregnancy and a group of other kidney diseases that are distinguished from each other by a variety of morphological changes. This latter group of diseases includes myelogenous nephropathy, endemic, or Balkan, nephropathy, medicinally induced nephropathy, kaliopenic nephropathy, and hypercalcemic nephropathy.

REFERENCE

Osnovy nefrologii, vol. 2. Edited by E. M. Tareev. Moscow, 1972.

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Recent non-aids disease screening guidelines for people with HIV infection

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Infection with HIV has also been associated with the renal disease termed HIV-associated nephropathy (HIVAN) that we speculated (2) could also be associated with mycoplasma infection.

Could HIV-associated nephropathy be associated with Mycoplasma infection?

Renal manifestations of HIV include HIV-associated nephropathy (HIVAN), 'collapsing glomerulopathy', IgA glomerulonephritis, microangiopathic nephropathy (haemolytic uraemic syndrome), immune complex (systemic lupus-like) syndrome and mixed cryoglobulinaemic vasculitis.

Other manifestations of HIV vasculopathy