Corticosteroids are the mainstay of therapy for granulomatous tubulointerstitial nephritis, an uncommon complication of sarcoidosis. Treatment improves renal function in the short term ...

The initial renal biopsy of the case presented here revealed immune-complex-mediated tubulointerstitial nephritis. As there was no evidence of systemic disease, drug use, herbal supplement intake ...

A 63-year-old woman was referred to Kochi University Hospital with a renal tumor discovered by medical examination, incidentally discovered on a computed tomography (CT) scan. There was no ...

More than 50% of patients with systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE) develop lupus nephritis (LN) during the disease, which may ...

A study analyzing 139 Japanese patients with biopsy-proven tubulointerstitial nephritis found that a significant portion of cases were drug-induced, with nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drugs and ...

Anti-C1q antibodies are highly prevalent among patients with IgG4-RD, particularly those with renal and skin manifestations.

Of the 110 patients who underwent kidney biopsies, 47 percent had tubulointerstitial nephritis, an inflammation of the kidneys, and 28 percent had tubular necrosis, a form of kidney cell death.

Moledina et al, External Validation of an Electronic Health Record–Based Diagnostic Model for Histological Acute Tubulointerstitial Nephritis, Journal of the American Society of Nephrology (2024).