Twelve to seventeen-year follow-up of patients with poststreptococcal acute glomerulonephritis in Trinidad
| Autor: | Stephen A. Lipschultz, Elizabeth V. Potter, Stella Abidh, Theo Poon-King, David P. Earle |
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| Rok vydání: | 1982 |
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Male medicine.medical_specialty Pediatrics Time Factors Adolescent Disease chemistry.chemical_compound Glomerulonephritis Streptococcal Infections medicine Humans Intensive care medicine Child Hematuria Creatinine Proteinuria business.industry General Medicine Middle Aged medicine.disease Prognosis Progressive renal failure Trinidad and Tobago chemistry Acute glomerulonephritis Acute Disease Hypertension Female Good prognosis medicine.symptom business Nephritis Follow-Up Studies |
| Zdroj: | The New England journal of medicine. 307(12) |
| ISSN: | 0028-4793 |
| Popis: | ONCE poststreptococcal acute glomerulonephritis is clinically healed and the urine is normal, the prognosis for these patients has been thought to be good, although occasionally an adult with progressive renal failure may recall having had "nephritis" as a child. Recently, however, Gallo1 and Schacht2 and their colleagues studied patients with poststreptococcal acute glomerulonephritis in New York City and found evidence of progressive renal disease in several patients, some of whom initially appeared to have healed. Thus, they question the previously accepted good prognosis for patients with this disease. We have had the opportunity to study large numbers of patients with . . . |
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