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Berger's nephropathy — IgA nephropathy an abnormality of the kidney in which there is a focal area of inflammation (glomerulonephritis). This causes microscopic amounts of blood in the urine. A quarter of the patients with this condition may develop kidney failure.… … The new mediacal dictionary
Nephropathy — A medical word for kidney disease. Nephropathy can be applied to any disease of the kidney. The prefix nephro denotes the kidney. From the Greek nephros meaning kidney. Greece also provided pathy from pathos meaning disease. A nephrectomy… … Medical dictionary
nephropathy — n. disease of the kidney. See also: Balkan nephropathy, Berger s nephropathy, diabetic nephropathy … The new mediacal dictionary
Nephropathy — Not to be confused with Neuropathy. Nephropathy Classification and external resources MeSH D007674 Nephropathy refers to damage to or disease of the kidney. An older term for this is nephrosis … Wikipedia
Berger disease — Ber·ger disease (bār zhaґ) [Jean Berger, French nephrologist, born 1930] IgA nephropathy … Medical dictionary
Berger disease — IgA nephropathy … Medical dictionary
IgA nephropathy — see Berger s nephropathy * * * a common, chronic form of glomerulonephritis marked by hematuria and proteinuria and by deposits of immunoglobulin A in the mesangial areas of the renal glomeruli, with subsequent reactive hyperplasia of mesangial… … Medical dictionary
IgA nephropathy — see Berger s nephropathy … The new mediacal dictionary
IgA nephropathy — DiseaseDisorder infobox Name = IgA nephropathy ICD10 = ICD9 = ICD9|583.9 ICDO = Caption = Immunoglobulin A OMIM = 161950 OMIM mult = MedlinePlus = 000466 eMedicineSubj = med eMedicineTopic = 886 DiseasesDB = 1353 MeshID = D005922 IgA nephropathy… … Wikipedia
Morbus Berger — Die IgA Nephritis oder Morbus Berger ist die häufigste entzündliche Erkrankung unbekannter Ursache der Nierenkörperchen (Glomeruli; =idiopathische Glomerulonephritis). Kennzeichnend ist die Ablagerung von Immunglobulin A im Zwischengewebe… … Deutsch Wikipedia
