Identifier: urinaryanalysi00heit (find matches)
Title: Urinary analysis and diagnosis by microscopical and chemical examination
Year: 1906 (1900s)
Authors: Heitzmann, Louis, 1864- (from old catalog)
Subjects: Urine Diagnosis
Publisher: New York, W. Wood and company
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: The Library of Congress

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and connective-tissue shreds arescanty, unless the case is a severe one. Mucus-threads and -casts may attimes be pronounced, and the accompanying inflammations, especially inthe bladder, are well marked. Chronic Croupous Nephritis.—The longer a nephritis lasts, the moremarked are the changes in the casts, and in strictly chronic cases neitherhyaline nor epithelial casts are seen in the urine. The granular casts arethe most abundant in the milder forms, though a few fatty casts or gran#ular-fatty casts are also present. The groups of free fat-globules, as wellas the fat-globules in the epithelia and pus-corpuscles, become more nu-merous and more pronounced. In almost all cases of chronic croupous or parenchymatous nephritis,which have lasted for many months, and instead of abating have becomimore pronounced, a fatty degeneration of the kidney will develop, and wenow have the so-called large white kidney (Fig. 108). In these cases the fatty casts are abundant, and the large casts from
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?ig. 106.—Acute Hemorrhagic Croupous or Parenchymatous Nephritis, withCatarrhal Pyelitis and Cystitis (X 500).RB, Red blood-corpuscles; PC, pus-corpuscles, CE, epithelia from the convolutedtubules of the kidney; SE, epithelia from the straight collecting tubules of the kidney;UE, epithelia. from the ureter; PE, epithelia from the pelvis of the kidney; UB, epithelia(rom the upper layers of the bladder; MB, epithelia from the middle layers of the bladder;;7C, hyaline casts; EC, epithelial cast; BC, blood casts; CT, connective-tissue shred;jkf C, mucus-cast.

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