IDIOPATHIC MESANGIOCAPILLARY GLOMERULONEPHRITIS - COMPARISON OF TYPE-I AND TYPE-II IN CHILDREN AND ADULTS AND LONG-TERM PROGNOSIS
IDIOPATHIC MESANGIOCAPILLARY GLOMERULONEPHRITIS - COMPARISON OF TYPE-I AND TYPE-II IN CHILDREN AND ADULTS AND LONG-TERM PROGNOSIS
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DOI:
10.1016/0002-9343(83)90606-x
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发表时间:
1983-01-01
影响因子:
5.9
通讯作者:
HICKS, J
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作者:
CAMERON, JS;TURNER, DR;HICKS, J
Of 104 patients with idiopathic mesangiocapillary glomerulonephritis studied for at least 2 years, 69 patients had type I disease and 35 had type II. Patients were 45 children and 59 adults. Type II mesangiocapillary glomerulonephritis was more common in children than in adults, but no other clinical feature distinguished the 2 types at onset. Complement studies revealed that patients with type II had lower serum complement C3 concentrations and more frequently showed C3-splitting activity (C3 nephritic factor) in the serum. Children had hypertension or a lowered glomerular filtration rate less frequently at onset than did adults, but children had a higher incidence of a hematuric onset; C3 nephritic factor was also more frequent in the children. During a follow-up period of 2-21 yr (mean 8 yr), only 7 patients (5 with type I and 2 with type II) showed clinical remission; 38% of patients with type I and 49% of patients with type II died or required dialysis; a further 23% of patients with type I and 16% of patients with type II had continuing disease and reduced glomerular filtration rate. Only the presence and persistence of a nephrotic syndrome in type I predicted renal failure. In both types, the presence of sclerosis or crescents in the initial renal biopsy specimen was associated with a poorer prognosis, but no other feature was of major prognostic value.