Systemic vasculitis in the 1980s--is there an increasing incidence of Wegener's granulomatosis and microscopic polyarteritis?

4 October 1990 287 the kidneys, since the non-specific chest radiograph signs may be ascribed to common infections, and acute renal failure interpreted as secondary to the tox- aemic state which may accompany pneumonia, rather than to glomerular disease. Whether or not there is an increase in the incidence of WG and MPA, there is an important trend towards earlier referral as judged by degree of renal failure in the more recent cohort of cases.

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