Lipoid Nephrosis

The literature abounds with reports of cases of chronic nephrosis; observations on the clinical manifestations of the disease, its course, its frequent termination by peritonitis and its pathology are not uncommon. We have not, however, been able to find a report of a case that has lasted so many years as the one herein discussed. According to Munk, 1 the disease may last months or years. Clausen 2 reported a case in a child, aged 13, who had had the disease since early childhood and was still living in 1924, and Lowenthal 3 reported a fatal case that lasted for nearly four years. The duration of other fatal cases has, in general, not been so long as this. In Davison and Salinger's 4 series, the longest fatal case lasted thirty-six months; one of Kaufmann and Mason's 5 patients lived thirty-one months, and one of Volhard and Fahr's 6 lived fourteen months. Our patient was under observation