Case 28-1968
- 11 July 1968
- journal article
- case report
- Published by Massachusetts Medical Society in New England Journal of Medicine
- Vol. 279 (2) , 93-100
- https://doi.org/10.1056/nejm196807112790209
Abstract
Presentation of Case First admission. A fifty-eight-year-old woman was admitted to the hospital because of increasing edema.She had been well until four months previously, when there was the onset of progressive edema of the feet and hands, puffiness under the eyes and swelling of the abdomen. She noticed frothing of the urine, but no dysuria, oliguria or discoloration of the urine. One month before admission she entered another hospital. The blood pressure was 126 systolic, 80 diastolic. The urine gave a ++++ test for protein; the sediment contained 20 to 30 white cells and many hyaline and granular casts . . .Keywords
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