Poststreptococcal Glomerulonephritis without Proteinuria

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Abstract
THE question of whether poststreptococcal acute glomerulonephritis may occur without clinically detectable proteinuria is an elusive one. If one insists on bacteriologic or serologic evidence of a hemolytic streptococcal infection and histologic evidence of acute, diffuse glomerular involvement, no acceptable case has been recorded so far as we are aware. This is so, in spite of several affirmative answers to the question posed above. In 1872 Fenini1 presented a group of postscarlatinal nephritides with either absent or intermittent proteinuria, but without histologic description. One year later, Henoch2 described his often cited 2 autopsied patients with postscarlatinal nephritides, 1 of whom, . . .