Journal of the Royal Society of Medicine, Vol 89, Issue 1 49-50, Copyright © 1996 by Royal Society of Medicine
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DA Collins, S Patel, JB Eastwood and BE Bourke
Department of Rheumatology, St George's Hospital, London, England.
Severe hypertension and rapidly progressive acute renal failure is a well recognized complication of scleroderma, often referred to as the renal crisis, and widely thought to cause irreversible deterioration in renal function. With the advent of angiotensin-converting-enzyme inhibitors (ACE-I) the outlook for patients with this condition has dramatically improved. We report here one such patient.
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