Catalog

Diphtheritic renal tubular necrosis

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Link to WHO Definition

Diphtheritic renal tubular necrosis – http://id.who.int/icd/entity/1113648025

This is an upper respiratory tract illness caused by Corynebacterium diphtheriae, a facultative anaerobic, Gram-positive bacterium, causing condition involving the death of tubular cells that form the tubule that transports urine to the ureters while reabsorbing 99% of the water (and highly concentrating the salts and metabolic byproducts).