Loin pain and haematuria syndrome: possible association with intrarenal arterial spasms.

Abstract

in Dublin who are infected with hepatitis D virus2 and the increase of such infections in proportion with infections with human immunodeficiency virus (A G Shattock et al, international symposium on AIDS, Paris 1986) make it likely that other reactivations of infection with hepatitis D virus will occur in this susceptible population. Patients, methods, and resultsDuring 1979-81 we diagnosed loin pain and haematuria syndrome in four women (mean age 43-5 years (range 38-49)). They all had attacks of severe, in…