THE RENAL LESION IN RHEUMATIC FEVER
Authors: Robert Leroy Hutton, Chester R. Brown
Journal: Annals of Internal Medicine (1944)

Article1 January 1944THE RENAL LESION IN RHEUMATIC FEVERROBERT LEROY HUTTON, M.D., F.A.C.P., CHESTER R. BROWN, M.D.ROBERT LEROY HUTTON, M.D., F.A.C.P.Search for more papers by this author, CHESTER R. BROWN, M.D.Search for more papers by this authorAuthor, Article, and Disclosure Informationhttps://doi.org/10.7326/0003-4819-20-1-85 SectionsAboutPDF ToolsAdd to favoritesDownload CitationsTrack CitationsPermissions ShareFacebookTwitterLinkedInRedditEmail ExcerptSince Rayer1emphasized the nephritic complications of rheumatic fever there have been numerous observations, all of which note the infrequency of clinical evidence of renal involvement during the active stages of this disease. In a large series of cases the incidence of nephritic complications varies between 0.67 and 7 per cent.2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10Despite this, Bell11finds cardiac rheumatism and nephritis to be frequent in necropsy material. 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