Abstract

The incidence of biopsy-proven acute interstitial nephritis (AIN) has increased dramatically over the past decade. It is the third most common cause of acute kidney disease in hospitalized patients. It is associated with a variety of infections, drugs, and with unknown causes. The classic presentation of AIN includes fever, rash, arthralgias, eosinophilia, and acute kidney injury. Renal biopsy is considered the gold standard for diagnosis. Clinical data on AIN are very few in south India . Hence this study was done to analyse the clinical profile of the patients with biopsy proven acute interstitial nephritis.

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