{"id":3590,"date":"2019-12-05T10:40:45","date_gmt":"2019-12-05T10:40:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/edren.org\/ren\/education\/textbook\/infection\/"},"modified":"2019-12-13T11:51:29","modified_gmt":"2019-12-13T11:51:29","slug":"infection","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/edren.org\/ren\/education\/textbook\/complications-of-kidney-disease\/infection\/","title":{"rendered":"Infection"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"breadcrumbs\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"maincontent contentwide\">\n<div id=\"wb_63\" class=\"section m_wysiwyg\">\n<h3><strong><span style=\"color: #993300;\">Infections causing renal disease<\/span><\/strong><\/h3>\n<p>Post-infectious <a href=\"http:\/\/www.edrep.org\/pages\/textbook\/glomerulonephritis.php\">glomerulonephritis<\/a>, classically occurring 10 days after a Streptococcal infection, is now uncommon in the developed world.\u00a0 More commonly glomerulonephritis is associated with current infection, notably bacterial endocarditis.\u00a0 Various infections (leptospirosis, viral infections) may cause a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.edrep.org\/pages\/textbook\/interstitial-nephritis.php\">tubulointerstitial nephritis<\/a>.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h3><strong><span style=\"color: #993300;\">Infections in patients on dialysis<\/span><\/strong><\/h3>\n<p>Infections are the second most common cause of death in patients on long-term dialysis, after cardiovascular disease.\u00a0 Some of these are related to dialysis access, but many are common bacterial pneumonias and other infections.\u00a0 Patients with ESRF have multiple defects in leukocyte and immune function, including responses to vaccines. Tuberculosis is increased in frequency in the dialysis as well as the transplant populations.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h3><strong><span style=\"color: #993300;\">Infections in patients after renal transplantation and on treatment with immunosuppressive drugs<\/span><\/strong><\/h3>\n<p>Early after renal transplantation there is a risk of Pneumocystis pneumonia, and various viral infections (notably the herpesviruses, including Epstein Barr virus and CMV) are both more frequent and more severe.\u00a0 Viral infections probably account for much of the increase in lymphoma and cervical malignancy, and perhaps some other tumours, in transplant patients.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h3><strong><span style=\"color: #993300;\">Further info<\/span><\/strong><\/h3>\n<p>Postinfectious glomerulonephritis in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.edrep.org\/pages\/textbook\/glomerulonephritis.php\">Glomerulonephritis tutorial<\/a> (Lecture 2)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Infections causing renal disease Post-infectious glomerulonephritis, classically occurring 10 days after a Streptococcal infection, is now uncommon in the developed world.\u00a0 More commonly glomerulonephritis is associated with current infection, notably bacterial endocarditis.\u00a0 Various infections (leptospirosis, viral infections) may cause a tubulointerstitial nephritis. Infections in patients on dialysis Infections are the\u2026<\/p>\n<p> <a class=\"continue-reading-link\" href=\"https:\/\/edren.org\/ren\/education\/textbook\/complications-of-kidney-disease\/infection\/\"><span>Continue reading<\/span><i class=\"crycon-right-dir\"><\/i><\/a> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"parent":3737,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-3590","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/edren.org\/ren\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3590","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/edren.org\/ren\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/edren.org\/ren\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/edren.org\/ren\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/edren.org\/ren\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3590"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/edren.org\/ren\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3590\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3591,"href":"https:\/\/edren.org\/ren\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3590\/revisions\/3591"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/edren.org\/ren\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3737"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/edren.org\/ren\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3590"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}