Hello and welcome to the Zero to Finals podcast.

My name is Tom and in this episode I'm going to be talking to you about

glomerula nephritis.

And if you want to follow along with written notes on this topic,

you can follow along at zero definals.com slash glomerula nephritis

or in the renal section of the zero de finals medicine book.

So let's get straight in.

When we're talking about glomerula nephritis, there's some very important definitions

that you need to understand because it can be quite a complex topic

until you really understand each of the individual definitions.

A lot of the words sound quite similar and it's easy to get a bit mixed up with the meaning

of different words. Nephritis, to start with, is a very generic term that means inflammation

in the kidney. Remember, neph refers to the nephrons, which are in the kidneys, and itis

refers to inflammation. Nephritis is a very non-specific descriptive term and is not a diagnosis

or a syndrome that has any specific criteria. It's easy to get confused and think that when a

patient is described as having

nephritis, that this is a diagnosis, it's not an individual diagnosis, it's simply a descriptive

term that says the patient has inflammation within the kidneys. Nephritic syndrome, or acute

nephritic syndrome, refers to a group of symptoms and not a diagnosis. When we say a patient has nephritic syndrome refers to a group of symptoms and not a diagnosis.

When we say a patient has nephritic syndrome, it simply means they fit a clinical picture of having

inflammation in their kidneys and it does not represent a specific diagnosis or give an underlying

cause for the nephritis. Unlike with nephrotic syndrome,

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