glomerulonephritis
MONDO:0002462Mondo
Findings
No curated finding names glomerulonephritis yet. Everything below is reference data from Mondo, HPO and GenCC, not evidence about what affects it.
Definition
A renal disorder characterized by damage in the glomeruli. It may be acute or chronic, focal or diffuse, and it may lead to renal failure. Causes include autoimmune disorders, infections, diabetes, and malignancies.
Definition from the Mondo Disease Ontology (MONDO:0002462), read 2026-09-29. CC BY 4.0.
Where it sits
- A kind of
- Narrower terms (20)
- acute poststreptococcal glomerulonephritis
- anti-basement membrane glomerulonephritis
- autoimmune glomerulonephritis
- diffuse glomerulonephritis
- exudative glomerulonephritis
- focal embolic glomerulonephritis
- granulomatosis with polyangiitis
- IgA glomerulonephritis
- immune-complex glomerulonephritis
- immunotactoid glomerulopathy
- lupus nephritis
- membranoproliferative glomerulonephritis
- membranous glomerulonephritis
- mesangial proliferative glomerulonephritis
- minimal change disease
- Pauci-immune glomerulonephritis
- primary membranoproliferative glomerulonephritis
- proliferative glomerulonephritis
- rapidly progressive glomerulonephritis
- subacute glomerulonephritis
Other names
4 names
Resolves to: glomerulonephritis
- Also called
- glomerular nephritisglomerulonephritis (disease)nephritis of renal glomerulusrenal glomerulus nephritis