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J P Adhémar
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Antiglomerular basement membrane nephritis after solvent exposure.
A rapidly progressive glomerulonephritis with definitive anuria was observed after solvent inhalation in two young women, aged 22 and 17 years. In both cases the renal biopsy specimen showed diffuse epithelial crescents in all glomeruli, with linear deposits of IgG along the glomerular basement membrane (GBM). High circulating anti-GBM antibody levels were found in sera by indirect immunofluorescence and radioimmunoassay. No anti-alveolar basement membrane antibodies were detectable by immunofluorescent microscopy in one patient. It is suggested that the solvent inhalation resulted in a chemical alteration of the alveolar basement membrane giving rise to anti-basement membrane antibodies, some of which may have cross-reacted with the GBM and initiated the glomerulonephritis.
[Drug-induced acute tubulointerstitial or interstitial renal disease].
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Thermography: an alternative to angiography for vascular access survey in haemodialysis.
Results obtained by thermography and angiography in surveying vascular access have been compared in 33 haemodialysis patients, including 23 with Cimino arteriovenous fistulae and 10 with homografts and heterografts. In 23 of 30 patients, blood flow stealing through collateral veins, or venous stenosis was detected by thermography and confirmed by angiography. Thermography seems a quick and simple method in routine conditions, restricting angiography to selected patients for whom a surgical revision of the fistula or of the graft is needed.
[Malignant glomerulonephritis with glomerular anti-basement membrane antibodies following inhalation of detergents (proceedings)].
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