[Pentoxifylline (Trental) in the treatment of chronic glomerulonephritis]

The effect of pentoxifyllin on the course of the disease and renal function in 53 patients with different clinical variants of chronic glomerulonephritis has been analyzed. A positive effect of pentoxifyllin monotherapy in latent and hypertonic variants of chronic glomerulonephritis was shown. In the nephrotic variant the authors recommended the combined use of pentoxifyllin with heparin and prednisolone, and in the mixed variant complicated by renal failure--pentoxifyllin with heparin.