November 30, 2009 — Recommendations for primary care clinicians regarding the diagnosis and treatment of nephrotic syndrome in adults are reviewed in the November 15 issue of the American Family ...

Patients with nephrotic syndrome were far more likely than healthy controls to suffer end-stage kidney disease, particularly if they had focal segmental glomerulosclerosis or membranous nephropathy.

What is Childhood Nephrotic Syndrome? Childhood nephrotic syndrome (NS) is a complex condition consisting of distinct subtypes of glomerular histopathology and clinical courses in children. It is also ...

In five children a nephrotic syndrome developed within one month (three cases), 11 months, and 10 years of the onset of diabetes mellitus. The syndrome, which responded to steroid therapy, was ...

With funding from charity Kidney Research UK, Dr Carl May from Bristol Medical School and his team have identified a new treatment pathway for patients with non-genetic (idiopathic) nephrotic syndrome ...

Findings showed a greater proportion of patients achieved sustained complete remission with obinutuzumab vs mycophenolate mofetil at week 52. Topline data were announced from a phase 3 study ...

Children with frequently relapsing or steroid-dependent nephrotic syndrome had a significantly longer relapse-free survival period with tacrolimus than with mycophenolate mofetil. Relapse-free ...

Monogenic nephrotic syndrome (nephrotic syndrome caused by a single gene defect) is responsible for only a small percentage of cases of nephrotic syndrome, but information from studies of the unique ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Compared with a cohort free of kidney disease, patients with primary nephrotic syndrome were nearly 20-times ...

THE nephrotic syndrome and pregnancy rarely co- exist. This may be attributed to the relative infrequency of this disease during the childbearing period and to the obstacles to conception afforded by ...

A study has revealed a major advance in the identification and tracking of renal illnesses linked to nephrotic syndrome. Nephrotic syndrome, defined by increased urine protein levels, is associated ...