pseudonephritis

[ soo-doh-nuh-frahy-tis ]

noun

, Pathology.

1. a condition, thought to be benign, in which microscopic amounts of blood and protein are present in the urine, occurring commonly among athletes after strenuous exercise.

Word History and Origins

Origin of pseudonephritis¹

pseudo- + nephritis

Example Sentences

Why does vigorous and prolonged exrcise cause pseudonephritis?

From Time Magazine Archive

When a second test 48 hours after the first turned out normal, Zarmunsky's doctor diagnosed his condition as "jogger's kidney," or athletic pseudonephritis, a transient problem caused not by disease but by prolonged exercise.

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Dr. Robert Johnson of Knox College in Galesburg, Ill., who helped conduct a 1970 medical study of several hundred athletes, figures that large numbers of the country's estimated 10 million joggers and runners suffer at some time from athletic pseudonephritis, especially if they exercise strenuously for an hour or more at a time.

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The problem, says Johnson, is that many doctors are unaware of the phenomenon and may order up expensive tests instead of the simple follow-up exam that would show the condition to be pseudonephritis.

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