Drug-Induced Acute Tubulointerstitial Nephritis

Daniela Rădulescu

doi:10.2478/inmed-2020-0127

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Drug-Induced Acute Tubulointerstitial Nephritis

Internal Medicine

Volume 17 (2020): Issue 4 (June 2020)

By: Daniela Rădulescu

Open Access

|Oct 2020

Abstract

Nowadays, incidence of drug-induced acute tubulointerstitial nephritis is on the rise due to increased access of the patients to a variety of both prescribed and over-the-counter drugs. Acute kidney injury and hypersensitivity manifestations are the main features of acute tubulointerstitial nephritis.

Classically considered reversible after prompt withdrawal of the offending medication, recent decades revealed potential for evolution to chronic kidney disease. This article presents the challenges in the diagnosis and treatment and also evolutive features of allergic acute tubulointerstitial nephritis induced by drugs.

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