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EDMUND L. DUBOIS, M.D.

AMA Arch Intern Med. 1954;93(5):667-672.

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CHASIS, Goldring, and Baldwin in 1949 reported on the favorable use of methyl-bis (β-chloroethyl) amine hydrochloride (nitrogen mustard) in glomerulonephritis.¹ Their rationale for using this drug was based on "the assumption that human glomerulonephritis is the result of tissue alterations in the kidneys induced by an antigen-antibody complex."² Nitrogen mustard is known to inhibit antibody production. Several confirmatory reports of the use of the agent in the nephrotic syndrome have appeared in the literature.* In a recent paper Baldwin, McLean, Chasis, and Goldring stated that the evidence favoring the use of nitrogen mustard in human glomerulonephritis is equivocal.² Dustan, Corcoran, and Haserick first used this drug in systemic lupus erythematosus with renal involvement.⁵

Rohn and Bond administered nitrogen mustard to five patients who had systemic lupus erythematosus without renal damage. Three cases were benefited.⁶

Since Duston's preliminary report, in 1951, we have treated 20 patients with active acute and subacute . . . [Full Text PDF of this Article]

Author Affiliations
LOS ANGELES

From the Department of Internal Medicine, University of Southern California Medical School, and the Los Angeles County General Hospital.

Footnotes
Methyl-bis (β-chloroethyl) amine hydrochloride (Mustargen) was supplied by Dr. E. Alpert, of Merck & Company, Inc., Rahway, N. J. Triethylene melamine was provided by Dr. J. M. Ruegsegger, of Lederle Laboratories Division, American Cyanamid Company, Pearl River, N. Y.

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