title: Microscopic polyarteritis: clinical features and treatment.
abstract: The clinical features, treatment and survival of 36 patients with microscopic polyarteritis diagnosed between 1957-1988 have been reviewed. All had a focal segmental necrotizing glomerulonephritis on renal biopsy with evidence of a small vessel vasculitis. Most had a prodromal illness of less than 1 month. Severity of renal disease varied from microscopic haematuria which has a good prognosis to acute oliguric renal failure which carries a high mortality. The prognosis of microscopic polyarteritis can be improved if the condition is recognized early and treated with steroids and cyclophosphamide.
authors.affiliation: Regional Renal Unit, General Infirmary Leeds, UK.
authors.forename: H
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Rodgers
authors.forename: J A
authors.initials: JA
authors.lastname: Guthrie
authors.forename: A M
authors.initials: AM
authors.lastname: Brownjohn
authors.forename: J H
authors.initials: JH
authors.lastname: Turney
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D000368:Aged; D001167:Arteritis / Q000097:blood / Q000150:complications / Q000401:mortality / Q000628:therapy*; D002423:Cause of Death; D005260:Female; D005923:Glomerulosclerosis, Focal Segmental / Q000209:etiology; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D012189:Retrospective Studies