Abstract
Summary During a 3 year period (1954 to 1957) all of the 40 cases of acute glomerulonephritis admitted to Booth Hall Hospital for Sick Children, Manchester, were submitted to x-ray examination of the chest. Twenty-five were found to have definite lung changes. Among a further 25 patients of nephritis who had been x-rayed during the 5 year period 1949 to 1954, 12 had radiographic findings similar to those of the original group studied. Segmental or lobar collapse, consolidation, intrapulmonary edema, and pleural effusions were the lesions encountered. They appeared in the first week of the illness and cleared with the onset of diuresis. The majority of these children had some degree of hypertension. There was no correlation with the age of the patients or the degree of azotemia present. An explanatory hypothesis is discussed.
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