Supplement January 2008, pp.(doi:10.This Article Services Citing Articles Google Scholar PubMed NEPHROLOGY LONG-TERM PROGNOSIS OF HENOCH-SCHNLEIN NEPHRITIS IN CHILDREN AYSE ONERA, ZLEM ERDOGANB, TUBA ERENB, GLAY DEMIRCINB, MEHMET BLBLB, SAHIKA BAYSUNB AND NILUFER ARDAB a Pediatric Nephrology Department, Trakya University Medicine Faculty Hospital, Edirne, Turkey b Pediatric Nephrology Department, Dr Sami Ulus Children's Hospital, Ankara, Turkey ABSTRACT INTRODUCTION: The long-term prognosis in Henoch-Schnlein purpura is determined principally by the development of progressive glomerulonephritis (>10% progress to end-stage renal failure).OBJECTIVE: In this study we aimed to investigate the long-term prognosis of Henoch-Schnlein nephritis (HSN) in childhood.Between 1991 and 2003, 156 patients with HSN were investigated retrospectively.RESULTS: There were 86 boys and 70 girls with a mean age of 9.They were graded according to the degree of renal involvement: grade 1, isolated microscopic hematuria (_n_ = 31); grade 2, hematuria and mild proteinuria (_n_ = 60); grade 3, acute nephritic syndrome (_n_ = 4); grade 4, nephrotic syndrome hematuria (_n_ = 18); grade 5, acute nephritic and nephrotic syndrome (_n_ = 43).Read more Spp100 (tekturna/rasilez) promising results in patients with heart failure
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