Lomu, 28, has nerve damage in his feet and lower legs from dialysis treatment he's been undergoing since June, when his kidney failed as a result of the debilitating nephritic syndrome.
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He was the first to show that C3 nephritic factor is an autoantibody that activates the alternative complement pathway, a finding that suggested the potential of B cell or complement C5 depletion as adjunct therapies in certain forms of kidney inflammation.
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It typically occurs 1 4 weeks after a pharyngeal infection with this bacterium, and is likely to present with malaise, a slight fever, nausea and a mild nephritic syndrome of moderately increased blood pressure, gross haematuria, and smoky-brown urine.
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IgA nephropathy, also known as " Berger's disease ", is the most common type of glomerulonephritis, and generally presents with isolated visible or occult hematuria, occasionally combined with low grade proteinuria, and rarely causes a nephritic syndrome characterised by space between glomerular capillaries.
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As it is not strictly a single disease, its presentation depends on the specific disease entity : it may present with isolated hematuria and / or proteinuria ( blood or protein in the urine ); or as a nephrotic syndrome, a nephritic syndrome, acute kidney injury, or chronic kidney disease.
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In mid April, suffering from an nephritic complaint, Jourdan handed over command to his chief of staff, general of division Jean Augustin Ernouf, and returned to Paris to complain about the lack of men, the inexperience of the men he had, their supplies, and the size, experience, and supply of the army he had to face.
