KH MEADOR, Z SHARON, EJ LEWIS - Annals of Internal Medicine, 1979 - Am Coll Physicians Two drug addicts who practiced subcutaneous injection of crushed tripelennamine and pentazocine
tablets, a practice known as "skin-popping," developed nephrotic syndrome and demonstrated
amyloidosis on renal biopsy. These patients had chronic inflammation of the skin in the ... Cited by 17 - Related articles - All 3 versions
J SCHOLES, R DEROSENA, GB APPEL, W … - Annals of Internal …, 1979 - Am Coll Physicians Four chronic heroin addicts had renal amyloidosis and the nephrotic syndrome. Amyloidosis
had the secondary type of tissue distribution and developed after many years of addiction. That
chronic immunologic stimulation by one or more exogenous antigens or multiple acute ... Cited by 18 - Related articles - All 2 versions
MI Salomon, T Pui Poon, M Goldblatt, V Tchertkoff - Nephron, 1972 - content.karger.com Percutaneous biopsies were performed in 14 unselected addicts, ranging in age from 21 to 52
years, who had no manifest cardiac, hepatic or sickle-cell disorder. Urinary findings ranged from
normal to a trace of protein with a few red blood cells and a few white blood cells; ... Cited by 16 - Related articles - All 4 versions
- ►nih.gov [PDF] S Menchel, D Cohen, E Gross, B … - The American journal …, 1983 - pubmedcentral.nih.gov THE LIST of medical disorders associated with the chronic use of narcotics is extensive'-4 and
includes renal abnormalities such as the nephrotic syndrome and renal failure.5'-0 Although
numerous studies have documented renal disease in the addict popula- tion, reports of ... Cited by 25 - Related articles - All 4 versions
JAL Arruda, NA Kurtzman, VKG Pillay - Archives of Internal …, 1975 - archinte.highwire.org Thewidespread self use of heroin has been associated with many medical complications that
have been the subject of several reviews.13 Re¬ cent retrospective studies have sug¬ gested
a high incidence of renal dis¬ ease in heroin addicts.1'8 Various forms of renal disease ... Cited by 16 - Related articles - All 3 versions
A Dubrow, N Mittman, V Ghali, W … - American journal of kidney …, 1985 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov Thirty-five renal biopsies were performed on heroin abusers at our institution between January
1977 and June 1983 as part of the evaluation of unexplained heavy proteinuria. Twenty-eight
patients (80%) had histopathologic diagnoses of either focal segmental ... Cited by 25 - Related articles
J Neugarten, GR Gallo, J Buxbaum, LA Katz, J … - The American journal of …, 1986 - Elsevier Systemic amyloidosis has recently emerged as a major cause of nephropathy among heroin
abusers in New York City. Although focal glomerulosclerosis is typically seen in intravenous
drug abusers who present with the nephrotic syndrome, those who escape this ... Cited by 36 - Related articles - All 5 versions
E Grishman, J Churg, JG Porush - … ; a journal of technical methods and …, 1976 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov Renal biopsies of 23 heroin addicts who presented with the nephrotic syndrome were examined
by light and electron microscopy. The majority of patients (14) showed focal segmental glomerular
sclerosis on light microscopy, four patients showed "minimal change", and two were ... Cited by 23 - Related articles
