| dc.contributor.author | Barr, RD | |
| dc.contributor.author | Rees, PH | |
| dc.contributor.author | Cordy, PE | |
| dc.contributor.author | Kungu, A | |
| dc.contributor.author | Woodger, BA | |
| dc.contributor.author | Cameron, HM | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2013-06-06T10:17:49Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2013-06-06T10:17:49Z | |
| dc.date.issued | 1972 | |
| dc.identifier.citation | Br Med J. 1972 Apr 15;2(5806):131-4 | en |
| dc.identifier.uri | http://erepository.uonbi.ac.ke:8080/xmlui/handle/123456789/29162 | |
| dc.identifier.uri | http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/4111681 | |
| dc.description.abstract | The adult nephrotic syndrome as met with in Nairobi is predominantly encountered in young sophisticated African women, most of whom began to use skin-lightening creams containing mercury before the symptomatic onset of their illness. The particular form of mercury involved is well known to cause the nephrotic syndrome in other circumstances-for example, when applied to the skin in the treatment of psoriasis. In these circumstances the pathogenetic mechanism is thought to be of an idiosyncratic type. The use of mercury-containing skin-lightening creams in the patients studied seemed to be particularly associated with a "minimal-change" ("light-negative") renal glomerular lesion, this lesion being present in half of the patients. The prognosis in this group of patients seems remarkably good, with 50% entering remission, 77% of these doing so spontaneously on discontinuing the use of the creams | en |
| dc.language.iso | en | en |
| dc.title | Nephrotic syndrome in adult Africans in Nairobi | en |
| dc.type | Article | en |
| local.publisher | Department of Pathology, University of Nairobi | en |
