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 ...

Idiopathic nephrotic syndrome is the most common disorder of glomerular function in pediatrics. [1] Approximately 40% of children diagnosed with idiopathic nephrotic syndrome will have a relapsing ...

Minimal change nephrotic syndrome in children: deaths during the first 5 to 15 years' observation. Report of the International Study of Kidney Disease in Children. Pediatrics 73, 497–501 (1984).

(of the Department of Pediatrics, Kobe University Graduate School of Medicine) has revealed that NPHS1 is a disease-susceptibility gene for steroid-sensitive nephrotic syndrome in children.

16 Pediatric whole-body data obtained by means ... Mean differences between patients with glucocorticoid-sensitive nephrotic syndrome and controls were assessed by means of the t-test.

Vivarelli and coworkers assert that idiopathic nephrotic syndrome (INS ... from patients seen between 1992 and 2006 on a single pediatric nephrology service. The patients were all children ...

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 ...

Nephrotic syndrome (NS) occurs in approximately 3. ... due to marked proteinuria or increased sodium retention. Pediatric and adult patients with NS often have weight gain due to edema ...

1 We evaluated a woman with the TNF receptor–associated periodic syndrome due to a C33Y mutation in TNF receptor 1 (TNFRSF1A), who had the nephrotic syndrome in association with amyloidosis.