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[Cell mediated immunity in a mercury nephrotic syndrome (author's transl)]
La Semaine Des Hopitaux : Organe Fonde Par L'Association D'Enseignement Medical Des Hopitaux De Paris
|May 13, 1982
Abstract:
A case of extramembranous glomerulonephritis seen in a patient in contact with mercury diodide is reported. The responsibility of mercury in this occurrence of this nephropathy is confirmed by positive tests exploring cell mediated immunity. The other possible actions of mercury are described: modifications in renal tubular antigen, or in a tissue or serum protein, with antibody production and secondary apparition of immune complexes which deposit in the glomerules.