Tacrolimus outshined another immunosuppressive drug at extending relapse-free survival in kids with frequently relapsing or steroid-dependent nephrotic syndrome in a randomized study from China. All ...

She was diagnosed with congenital nephrotic syndrome as a newborn, after being rushed to the ER of the Montreal Children's Hospital. Dr. Indra Gupta, a pediatric nephrologist and Carmella's doctor, ...

For children with nephrotic syndrome, there was no difference in ... the researchers wrote in JAMA Pediatrics. There were also no significant differences in mean annualized estimated glomerular ...

ABSTRACT: Introduction: The nephrotic syndrome (NS) is the most common glomerular nephropathy in children. The aim of this work was to study the diagnostic and evolutionary aspects of NS in pediatrics ...

Nephrotic syndrome is a group of symptoms that occur when your kidneys are not functioning as they should. It is not a disease but a condition caused by diseases that damage the tiny filtering blood ...

This stems from the experiences gathered during the last 7 years by the Pediatric Nephrology service of the Pablo Tobón Uribe Hospital with a total of 26 patients with steroid-resistant nephrotic ...

We used the search terms “nephrotic syndrome”, “minimal change disease”, and “focal segmental glomerulosclerosis” in combination with “childhood” or “pediatric” or “children”. We largely selected ...

“Children with nephrotic syndrome (NS) are at high risk for severe bacterial ... recommends the pneumococcal polysaccharide vaccine (PPSV23) for pediatric patients with NS. “It’s critical to ...

2 Pediatrics Department, Alberto Hurtado School of Medicine ... bilateral and chronic renal failure derived from nephrotic syndrome birth. At 3 years old, he began renal replacement therapy, first ...