Both acute and chronic tubulointerstitial nephritis can be caused by a bacterial infection in the kidneys, known as pyelonephritis.
He had contracted acute nephritis - inflammation of the kidneys - together with high blood pressure, and his face, feet and ankles became very swollen.
In the same year he was hospitalized with life-threatening acute nephritis.
Thomas's death was attributed to acute nephritis caused by mercury bichloride absorption.
Bright's disease is a historical classification of kidney diseases that would be known in modern medicine as acute or chronic nephritis.
Clinical presentation has been with acute nephritis, nephrotic syndrome, or renal failure.
A single case of acute interstitial nephritis has been reported.
"I had assumed that this was a case of acute nephritis, but it may be chronic."
In 1948 there were seven deaths from whooping cough and 77 hospital admissions from acute nephritis.
Several mushrooms in the genus Cortinarius are poisonous, mainly because they cause acute tubulointerstitial nephritis.