chronic interstitial nephritis
- chronic interstitial nephritis
- the more common type of interstitial nephritis, which progresses to the point where there is interstitial fibrosis with atrophic, shrunken kidneys, a lowered glomerular filtration rate, and danger of renal failure.
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