1/4. Acute tubulointerstitial nephritis associated with yersinia pseudotuberculosis infection.Two siblings infected with yersinia pseudotuberculosis suffered from acute renal failure about 2 weeks after the onset of the disease. Renal histology in both siblings showed acute tubulointerstitial nephritis. yersinia pseudotuberculosis type VB was isolated from feces of one of them, antibodies to yersinia pseudotuberculosis type VB in their sera were elevated. The results of the present study suggest that acute renal failure complicating infections with yersinia pseudotuberculosis is due to acute tubulointerstitial nephritis.- - - - - - - - - - ranking = 1keywords = tubulointerstitial nephritis, tubulointerstitial, nephritis (Clic here for more details about this article) |
2/4. Acute interstitial nephritis associated with yersinia pseudotuberculosis infection.We report two cases of acute interstitial nephritis associated with yersinia pseudotuberculosis infection. The patients had fever, abdominal pain, vomiting and acute renal failure coinciding with elevated agglutination antibody titer for Y. pseudotuberculosis. Renal biopsy revealed interstitial nephritis in both patients. Although it is well known that yersiniosis sometimes affects glomeruli, this is the first report to demonstrate acute interstitial nephritis in patients with Y. pseudotuberculosis infection.- - - - - - - - - - ranking = 0.06474373664425keywords = nephritis (Clic here for more details about this article) |
3/4. Acute tubulointerstitial nephritis in association with yersinia pseudotuberculosis infection.A 4-year-old girl was diagnosed as having acute renal failure due to tubulointerstitial nephritis. The girl presented with remittent fever, vomiting and non-oliguric acute renal failure with sterile pyuria and tubular reabsorptive dysfunction. Ultrasound examination revealed that the kidneys were markedly enlarged with diffuse hyperechogenicity in the cortex when the abnormal renal function was present and were restored in size and echogenicity when the renal function normalised. A diagnosis of yersinia pseudotuberculosis infection was based on a rise in haemagglutination titres against the organism.- - - - - - - - - - ranking = 0.83333333333333keywords = tubulointerstitial nephritis, tubulointerstitial, nephritis (Clic here for more details about this article) |
4/4. Ultrasonographic findings of acute tubulointerstitial nephritis.Three children were diagnosed as having acute renal failure due to acute tubulointerstitial nephritis (TIN) associated with yersinia pseudotuberculosis infection. The kidneys were observed ultrasonically during the disease course. The subjects presented with remittent fever, vomiting or diarrhea, and nonoliguric acute renal failure with sterile pyuria and tubular reabsorptive dysfunction. Ultrasound examination delineated marked enlargement of the kidneys with diffuse hyperechogenicity in the cortex, suggesting the diagnosis of TIN. The renal swelling was marked in the descending order of width, depth and length, respectively, and reached more than 200% in volume in 1 of the children who was examined at the culminating stage of acute renal failure. The enlarged kidneys reduced in size in parallel as the elevated serum creatinine levels decreased. However, the enlarged kidneys did not seem to return to their original sizes: the kidney size in 1 of the children remained well above the upper allowance limit of the body-height-related normals and in the other 2 they were only a little smaller than the upper limits. These ultrasound findings should help with the diagnosis and follow-up of the disease.- - - - - - - - - - ranking = 0.83333333333333keywords = tubulointerstitial nephritis, tubulointerstitial, nephritis (Clic here for more details about this article) |