Salt losing nephritis is a feature of:: (A) Interstitial nephritis, (B) Polycystic kidney, (C) Lupus nephritis, (D) Renal amyloidosis
Answer is A. Ans. is 'a' interstitial nephritis One of the important functional consequence of interstitial nephritis is salt wasting.Interstitial nephritis is caused by drugs such as methicillin* or penicillin*It is a type of tubulointerstitial disease in which there is tubular degeneration and necrosis and marked inflammation of interstitium.