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Glomerulonephritis, Membranopoliferative

 Subject

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Subject Source: Medical Subject Headings
Scope Note: Notes = Chronic glomerulonephritis characterized histologically by proliferation of MESANGIAL CELLS, increase in the MESANGIAL EXTRACELLULAR MATRIX, and a thickening of the glomerular capillary walls. This may appear as a primary disorder or secondary to other diseases including infections and autoimmune disease SYSTEMIC LUPUS ERYTHEMATOSUS. Various subtypes are classified by their abnormal ultrastructures and immune deposits. Hypocomplementemia is a characteristic feature of all types of MPGN.,Created For = LHSA-Dott

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PR2.166, 1941

 Item
Identifier: LHB1 CC/24/PR2.166
Scope and Contents

Typed case summary, charts and reports relating to male patient from Edinburgh and the Lothians aged 33 at first examination in 1941. Conditions mentioned include: headache; vomiting; back pain; and glomerular nephritis. Nonsurgical treatment given. Patient discharged.

Dates: 1941
Found in: Lothian Health Services Archive: Case Notes / Royal Infirmary of Edinburgh Folder-based Case Notes / RIE, Professor Norman Dott, Neurology, Ward 20 (part 1)