Features of development, course and forecast of glomerular diseases in children

In the group of diseases of the kidneys and urinary tract, glomerulonephritis is 3-4th, second only to pyelonephritis and urolithiasis in prevalence. Currently, due to the active antibacterial therapy of streptococcal infection, the incidence of acute glomerulonephritis, which now occurs mainly only in pediatric practice, has decreased. The connection between the growth of nephrological pathology and environmental changes, in particular, with an increase in radiation background, is indicated. Only acute nephritis, relatively rare at the present time, ends in recovery (and no more than half the time); chronic nephritis, especially subacute, is steadily progressing towards chronic renal failure, often accompanied by edema (nephrotic syndrome) and severe hypertension, leading to disability even before the development of chronic renal failure. Young, able-bodied men get sick more often (and get sick harder).