I seem to recall in my whirlwind tour through Robbins during Renal that there was a syndrome where fever induced a nephritis. I am not talking about poststrep nephritis. Anyone remember this? I don't have access to my heavily annotated Robbins right now and I got pimped on it......
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Can't remember the bleepin' name....
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Is IgA nephropathy what you are thinking of?
That would be the obvious answer but the attending made it sound like one of those rare, once in a lifetime diseases....I'll give him IgA and if it's not it, then I'll do the dumb third year, deer in the headlights look. Hopefully he'll have mercy.....
I have a strict rule of only memorizing up to a triad. Pentad....that's like 10, right?? That's way beyond my level of understanding.
A lot of nephritis might be associated with fever as it is an inflammatory type of process...i.e. a lupus nephritis flare up will have a fever quite often. But as far as a fever causing one, I wouldn't think so. There are not too many illnesses a fever causes until you get into a state of hyperthermia such that you get organ failure and death. IgA nephropathy is often said to follow a febrile/viral illness, so I'm guessing that is what you remember.
All good suggestions above, I might add drug-induced interstitial nephritis to that list.
The boy would probably salivate over that one.....he's a multiply boarded (ID being one of them) older physician that enjoys watching students squirm....
