When an infection occurs, the risk of developing kidney inflammation – pyelonephritis and glomerulonephritis – increases. These complications - nephritis - are different types of damage to the kidney tissue that arise due to infectious pathology. Post-infectious inflammation is usually detected in one kidney, but bilateral kidney damage in patients is not common. While the infection is in the patient’s body, a post-infectious form of kidney inflammation can also form. Kidney inflammation: classification, symptoms, causes of the disease, treatment and prognosis
Nephritis is a group of inflammatory diseases of the urinary system, which is characterized by a violation of the filtering, secretory or evacuation function.