ABSTRACT
Se realizó un estudio de corte descriptivo y transversal para conocer las alteraciones clínicas e histopatológicas, de pacientes con síndrome nefrótico atendidos en el servicio de nefrología del hospital en el período comprendido entre el primero de enero y el tres de diciembre de 1997. Nuestro universo estuvo constituido por los 76 pacientes con síndrome nefrótico a los cuales se les realizó biopsia renal.
A descriptive, cross-sectional study was performed to know clinical and pathohistological disorders of patients with nephrotic syndrome asisted in the Neprology service at Manuel Ascunce Domenech Provincial Hospital within the period from january 1st to december 31st, 1997. Our study universe was composed of 76 patients with nephrotic syndrome to which renal biopsy was carried out. A survey was developed to each patient, which represented their primary register of this investigation. Age group from 20 to 29 years was greatly outlined with prevalence of femenine sex and white skin (64, 47 %). Edema was the clinical symptom and the positive sign more frequently found in the physical examination with 68, 42 % and 100 % respectively segmentary and focal glomeruloesclerosis (19, 74 %) was the histologic result most representative and edema the symptom that prevailed in all histological results, hematuria most frequently appeared in nephropathy IgA. There was a prevalence of patients with renal normofunction (67, 11 %) presenting renal failure 100 % of patients with chronic and diffuse proliferative glomerulonephritis.