Resumen

ESTRADA VIDAL, Jorge; SOLARES HERRERA, Víctor; PILA PEREZ, Rafael  y  PILA PELAEZ, Rafael. Nephrotic syndrome: clinical humoral pathohistological study. AMC [online]. 2002, vol.6, n.6, pp.575-584. ISSN 1025-0255.

A descriptive, cross-sectional study was performed to know clinical and pathohistological disorders of patients with nephrotic syndrome asisted in the Neprology service at Manuel Ascunce Domenech Provincial Hospital within the period from january 1st to december 31st, 1997. Our study universe was composed of 76 patients with nephrotic syndrome to which renal biopsy was carried out. A survey was developed to each patient, which represented their primary register of this investigation. Age group from 20 to 29 years was greatly outlined with prevalence of femenine sex and white skin (64, 47 %). Edema was the clinical symptom and the positive sign more frequently found in the physical examination with 68, 42 % and 100 % respectively segmentary and focal glomeruloesclerosis (19, 74 %) was the histologic result most representative and edema the symptom that prevailed in all histological results, hematuria most frequently appeared in nephropathy IgA. There was a prevalence of patients with renal normofunction (67, 11 %) presenting renal failure 100 % of patients with chronic and diffuse proliferative glomerulonephritis.

Palabras clave : NEPHROTIC SYNDROME.

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