NUR 229 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Glomerulonephritis, Nephron, Impetigo
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Glomerulus) that causes permeability to protein and red blood cells due to previous strep infection. Therefore, protein and red blood cells will be present in the urine. It tends to present 14 days after a strep infection of the throat or skin (impetigo). It mainly affects the pediatric population ages 2-10. It is not caused from the strep bacteria attacking the glomerulus but the immune system"s response to the bacteria by creating antigen-antibody complexes, which inflames the glomerulus. Role of glomerulus (this is what is damaged in acute glomerulonephritis): it filters the blood and removes ions, water, waste except proteins and bloods cells (they are too big to pass through) The glomerulus becomes inflamed due to a recent infection from a group of bacteria called streptococcus. The bacteria itself doesn"t cause the inflammation to the glomerulus but the immune system which has created immune complexes.
