The case: A 57-year-old man presented to hospital with a 2-week history of progressive malaise, myalgia, fever, nausea, vomiting, diarrhea, polyuria and polydipsia. He had a history of gastresophageal ...

The four patients reported here all experienced GFR decreases, and urinary findings that were most consistent with a diagnosis of AIN (hematuria, proteinuria, and pyuria with frequent white blood cell ...

Interstitial nephritis is a condition in which a part of your kidneys, called the interstitium, gets inflamed. It can be mild and short-term or more severe and longer-term. It is usually caused by ...

Over the past two decades, testing for eosinophiluria has gained widespread acceptance as a means of screening for acute interstitial nephritis. The frequent use of this test may be explained, in part ...

Acute interstitial nephritis (AIN) is an entity in which acute kidney injury (AKI) is accompanied by histological findings of interstitial inflammation, edema, and tubulitis. There are ...

Pyuria is a condition defined by the increased presence of white blood cells in urine. Although a urinary tract infection is the most common cause of sterile pyuria, other conditions may be involved.

ORLANDO—Elderly patients have a higher incidence of drug-induced acute interstitial nephritis (AIN) than younger patients, according to study findings presented at the National Kidney Foundation’s ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Researchers found patients who were diagnosed with acute interstitial nephritis had higher levels of urinary TNF ...

Pyuria is a urinary condition related to white blood cells that is diagnosed with a urine test. It can have many causes, and the treatment depends on the cause. Your doctor will diagnose pyuria if you ...

Background Over the course of 1 year, four patients in a single institution developed acute kidney injury most likely secondary to nafcillin-associated acute interstitial nephritis, indicating that ...

Interstitial nephritis is a kidney condition characterized by swelling in between the kidney tubules. The main functions of your kidneys are to filter your blood and to get rid of waste from your body ...

AIN is a well-known complication of therapy with a number of medications, including proton pump inhibitors, [1] NSAIDs, and antibiotics such as vancomycin, [2,3,4] cephalosporins, sulphonamides, [5] ...