Renal toxicity of therapeutic drugs

摘要: A number of therapeutic agents can adversely affect the kidney, resulting in tubulointerstitial, glomerular or vascular disease. Drug-induced tubulointerstitial nephritis and acute tubular necrosis are common, often cause by antibiotics non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs. disease is relatively rare. This review describes morphological patterns drug-induced kidney. The histopathological changes similar to that idiopathic due other causes, so awareness clinical correlation most helpful arrive at aetiology.