Statements in which the resource exists as a subject.
PredicateObject
rdf:type
lifeskim:mentions
pubmed:issue
3
pubmed:dateCreated
1987-1-6
pubmed:abstractText
Fourty-four children with Henoch-Schoenlein nephritis were studied at the onset of the nephropathy and during a follow-up from 6 to 110 months. The extra-renal manifestations were purpura (100%), abdominal pain (63.5)% or melena (27%), arthlagias (61.5%), neurological symptoms with convulsions (4.5%) and retinal involvement (4.5%). The clinical presentation of the nephropathy consisted in haematuria and proteinuria (41%), isolated haematuria (30%), acute renal failure (ARF) (23%), nephrotic syndrome (4%) or isolated proteinuria (2%). Hypertension was present in 17 patients. Renal biopsy was performed in 18 patients and the glomerular changes were graded according to the classification of ISKDC; the renal histopathology ranged from minimal lesions to severe crescentic glomerulonephritis and was found to correlate with clinical state. Twenty-four patients, who showed severe clinical presentation and/or diffuse mesangial proliferation with high proportion of crescents, received a corticosteroid therapy. Most of our patients followed a relatively benign course: all but one of patients with ARF have normal renal function at the end of follow-up and no patients with less severe renal presentation got a bad outcome. Only 2 patients showed relapse of nephropathy and purpura at the 6th and 8th year of follow-up, respectively. After 24 months of follow-up the clinical outcome of a group of 19 patients receiving corticosteroid therapy was not very different from that of 11 untreated patients.
pubmed:language
ita
pubmed:journal
pubmed:citationSubset
IM
pubmed:chemical
pubmed:status
MEDLINE
pubmed:issn
0391-5387
pubmed:author
pubmed:issnType
Print
pubmed:volume
8
pubmed:owner
NLM
pubmed:authorsComplete
Y
pubmed:pagination
317-20
pubmed:dateRevised
2010-11-18
pubmed:meshHeading
pubmed:articleTitle
[Clinical aspects of the nephropathy in Schoenlein-Henoch syndrome].
pubmed:publicationType
Journal Article, English Abstract