Interstitial nephritis pathophysiology

Overview

It is thought that acute tubulointerstitial nephritis is mediated by hypersensitivity reaction to drugs such as antibiotics,NSAIDS, sulfa drugs, as well as Systemic disease, and Infections may play parts in the pathogenesis of ATN from activation of cascade of cellular injury toward collagenases and metalloproteinases

activation and release of proinflammatory cytokines into the interstitium.

Pathophysiology

Physiology

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Pathogenesis

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OR

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