Nephrosis in children.

Date:
1954
  • Film

About this work

Description

Using the case study of a small girl, Barbara, the film shows the discovery and diagnosis of nephrosis using laboratory tests and clinical signs. Advanced disease is shown in a young boy who has prominent ascites and oedema. Treatment is shown using ACTH and terramycin. A variety of complications such as hernia, peritonitis, rickets and pneumonia are shown in other sick children. The film concludes by reminding the viewer that the possibility of progressive kidney failure and death is balanced by the likelihood of a full recovery if antibiotic therapy is correctly and swiftly administered.

Publication/Creation

United States : Campus Film Productions, 1954.

Physical description

4 film reels (20 min ea.) : sound, color, 16 mm.

Terms of use

Restricted until 01/01/2055

Creator/production credits

Made under the medical supervision of Robert E. Cooke, Associate Professor of Pediatrics and Associate Professor of Physiology, Yale University School of Medicine and Grace-New Haven Community Hospital. Made for the Medical Advisory Board, The National Nephrosis Foundation, Inc., under the administrative supervision of Leo L. Leveridge, Medical Film Department, Pfizer Laboratories. Produced by Campus Film Productions, directed by Nat Campus.

Copyright note

British Medical Association

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  • Copy 1

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  • Copy 3

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  • Copy 4

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