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Editor-In-Chief: C. Michael Gibson, M.S., M.D. [1]; Associate Editor(s)-in-Chief: Syed Ahsan Hussain, M.D.[2]
Overview
Causes
The causes of membranous glomerulonephritis are as follows: [1][2][3] [4]
Infectious disease
- Hepatitis B
- Hepatitis C
- secondary and congenital syphilis
- HIV nephropathy
- Schistosomiasis
- Leprosy
- Hydatid disease
- Loaiasis (filaria)
- Quartan malaria
Drugs and toxicity
- Gold
- Penicilliamine
- Captopril (high doses)
- Formaldehyde
- Probenecid
- nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drugs
- mercury
- Volatile hydrocarbons
Autoimmue or collagen-vascular disease
- systemic lupus erythematosus
- Rheumatoid arthritis
- Hashimoto`s thyroiditis
- Primary biliary cirrhosis
Neoplastic disease
- carcinoma ( lung, breast, stomach, colon, esophagus, melanoma, renal cell, neuroblastoma, carotid body)
- Lymphoproliferative ( non-hodgkin`s lymphoma, chronic lymphocytic leukemia, occasionally hodgkin`s lymphoma)
Miscellaneous
- Diabetes Mellitus
- sickle cell anemia
- Sarcoidosis
- Weber-christian disease
- Dermatitis herpetiformis
- Bullous pemphigoid
- Myasthenia gravis
- Guillain-Barre nephropathy
References
- ↑ Wasserstein AG (April 1997). "Membranous glomerulonephritis". J. Am. Soc. Nephrol. 8 (4): 664–74. PMID 10495797.
- ↑ Jennette JC, Iskandar SS, Dalldorf FG (September 1983). "Pathologic differentiation between lupus and nonlupus membranous glomerulopathy". Kidney Int. 24 (3): 377–85. PMID 6358633.
- ↑ "Comparison of idiopathic and systemic lupus erythematosus-associated membranous glomerulonephropathy in children. The Southwest Pediatric Nephrology Study Group". Am. J. Kidney Dis. 7 (2): 115–24. February 1986. PMID 3484901.
- ↑ Tse WY, Howie AJ, Adu D, Savage CO, Richards NT, Wheeler DC, Michael J (May 1997). "Association of vasculitic glomerulonephritis with membranous nephropathy: a report of 10 cases". Nephrol. Dial. Transplant. 12 (5): 1017–27. PMID 9175062.