An acute, subacute, or chronic, ususally bilateral, diffuse non suppurative inflammation kidney disease primarily affecting the glomeruli, characterised by proteinuria, cylindruria, hematuria, and often edema, hypertension and nitrogen retention.
Hypertension appear with any sudden insult to the kidneys[…]Some of the collagen disease may also produce progressive renal failure. The most common acute processes are glomerulonephritis and oliguric renal failure.