This Article  • References  • Full text PDF  • Send to a friend  • Save in My Folder  • Save to citation manager  • Permissions  Citing Articles  • Citation map  • Citing articles on HighWire  • Contact me when this article is cited  Related Content  • Similar articles in this journal  Social Bookmarking   What's this?

Clinical and Histologic Survey

ROBERT M. WILSON, M.D.; JOHN F. MAHER, M.D.; GEORGE E. SCHREINER, M.D.

Arch Intern Med. 1963;111(4):429-438.

	Since this article does not have an abstract, we have provided the first 150 words of the full text PDF and any section headings.

Introduction

Uremia has been cited as a leading cause of death in most reviews^1-12 of systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE). This has been particularly true since the advent of steroid therapy which has prevented death in the acute "toxic" phase of the disease, permitting survival and progression to the phase of chronic renal failure.⁵

Interest with natural history of SLE has been heightened by the recent optimistic reports of Pollak et al.¹³ and Holman,¹⁴ both of which, contrary to previous opinions,^2,3,8,9 indicate favorable effects of "high" dosage steroid therapy. For this reason, we report our clinical and histologic experience.

Methods and Material

All cases of "lupus nephritis" from 1951 through mid-1961 at Georgetown University Hospital were reviewed clinically and histologically. The diagnosis was based on the presence of SLE and clinical and/or histologic evidence of renal involvement. After hospital charts were reviewed, the corresponding material, if . . . [Full Text PDF of this Article]

Author Affiliations
WASHINGTON, D.C.

From the Department of Medicine, Georgetown University School of Medicine, and the Renal and Electrolyte Division, Georgetown University Hospital.

Footnotes
Received for publication Nov. 12, 1962; accepted Jan. 8, 1963.

Supported in part by the John A. Hartford Foundation and the Georgetown Kidney Research Fund.

CiteULike    Connotea    Del.icio.us    Digg    Reddit    Technorati    Twitter     What's this?