Monday, March 31, 2008

Henoch-Schonlein Purpura how the course and prognosis

The disease often cured, but it can relapse. The average duration of the four weeks (1 ~ 6 weeks). And the length of the course of the following factors: (1) the severity of the acute phase (2) is an important organ involvement, (3) whether it is recurrent. Only skin-type joints, and a shorter duration, about 1 to 2 weeks; abdominal course, about 3 to 5 weeks of kidney disease, the longest, up to four to five years. The prognosis of the general good. Skin type, joint-good prognosis, the absence of abdominal intussusception, and complications such as intestinal obstruction or prognosis. The majority of those type of renal treatment can be resumed, if protracted Fuyu is the development of chronic renal failure and even uremia.

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