Twelve to Seventeen-Year Follow-up of Patients with Poststreptococcal Acute Glomerulonephritis in Trinidad

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, Gallo 1...

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Published inThe New England journal of medicine Vol. 307; no. 12; pp. 725 - 729
Main Authors Potter, Elizabeth V, Lipschultz, Stephen A, Abidh, Stella, Poon-King, Theo, Earle, David P
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published United States Massachusetts Medical Society 16.09.1982
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Summary: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, Gallo 1 and Schacht 2 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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ISSN:0028-4793
1533-4406
DOI:10.1056/NEJM198209163071205