Glomerulonephritis

Abstract

Prognosis and Natural HistoryNowhere is the difficulty in assessing the natural history of glomerulonephritis better exemplified than in the symposium of the New York Heart Association that took place in 1970.⁹⁸ On this occasion two astute and competent observers of post-streptococcal glomerulonephritis disagreed almost totally about whether it would ever progress to chronic disease. Furthermore, one of them suggested that focal nephritis had a poor prognosis and frequently led to chronic disease, a view not held by most of the authors cited in previous sections of this review. In general, however, there is agreement that when post-streptococcal glomerulonephritis does . . .