Morphological and clinical aspects of membrano-proliferative glomerulonephritis in children.
Clinical and morphological studies were carried out in 34 children with the diagnosis of primary membrano-proliferative glomerulonephritis. The studies were prompted by an increasing incidence of this type of glomerulonephritis in Poland in the light of its regular decrease in the world. We found: (a) a number of discrepancies in the clinical manifestations and course of the disease in our children as compared with those in the literature; (b) difficulties in morphological diagnosis; (c) a frequent lack of correlation between the severity of morphological changes and the clinical course. It is of note that our series includes a large group of children below 6 years of age, which is a rare phenomenon.
Salwa-Zurawska
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W
Department of Clinical Pathomorphology, Medical Academy, Poznań.
Bortkiewicz
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E
Woźniak
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A
Dworacki
G
G
Maciejewski
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J
D000293:Adolescent; D002648:Child; D002675:Child, Preschool; D005260:Female; D015432:Glomerulonephritis, Membranoproliferative / Q000453:epidemiology / Q000473:pathology*; D006801:Humans; D015994:Incidence; D008297:Male; D011044:Poland / Q000453:epidemiology; D011379:Prognosis