Nephrology: New insight into common kidney disease

Sunday, April 25, 2010 - 23:32 in Health & Medicine

The kidney disease crescentic glomerulonephritis rapidly progresses to acute kidney failure and death within months if it is not treated. Even with treatment, many patients progress to end-stage kidney disease and require dialysis and sometimes a kidney transplant. New research in mice has identified a potential new drug target for the treatment of crescentic glomerulonephritis.

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