to assess the functional capacity of phagocytes in patients with renal disease , 33 normal subjects , 10 patients with mesangial proliferative glomerulonephritis , 8 patients with membranous nephropathy , and 8 patients with moderately severe chronic renal failure were studied by an in vitro assay , measuring the ability of isolated monocytes to ingest sheep erythrocytes coated with igg antibody and to phagocytize latex beads .
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renal disease
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chronic renal failure