UNLABELLED Patients with idiopathic nephrotic syndrome present alterations in their cellular and humoral immune reactions that predispose them to the development of infectious processes. PURPOSE To characterize the infectious processes in patients with idiopathic nephrotic syndrome. PATIENTS AND METHODS Ninety-two children and adolescents with idiopathic nephrotic syndrome were assessed ret...

The dosage and 3 months duration of glucocorticoid treatment in steroid-sensitive childhood idiopathic nephrotic syndrome, mainly associated with the histological picture of minimal change glomerulopathy, is based on the evidence of randomized clinical trials with clear-cut end points [1–3]. Duration of up to 7 months of the therapy may even be more effective in achieving sustained remission. A...

A case of systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE) associated with minimal-change nephrotic syndrome (MCNS) is described. A 41-year-old woman with SLE presented with symptoms of nephrotic syndrome. Renal biopsy revealed minor glomerular abnormalities without the deposition of immune complexes. The initial heavy proteinuria promptly decreased after the prednisolone dosage was increased and disappeared...

CD80 is expressed on all antigen-presenting cells and is present on podocytes in a number of experimental models of nephrotic syndrome. We tested whether urinary soluble CD80 increased with idiopathic minimal-change disease (MCD). We collected urine and serum samples from patients with MCD in relapse and in remission, patients with nephrotic syndrome resulting from other glomerular diseases (FS...

BACKGROUND Nephrotic syndrome occurs very rarely, in only about 0.01%-0.02% of all pregnancies, and de novo minimal change disease during pregnancy is especially rare. Nephrotic syndrome and, especially, minimal change disease are highly responsive to steroids, and preterm labor may be avoidable if the maternal condition is improved with steroid therapy. Therefore, prompt diagnosis and proper m...

Renal histopathology in 87 patients, aged over 60, with nephrotic syndrome were studied. In 57 patients diagnosed as primary glomerular disease, membranous glomerulonephritis (MGN) was of the most common histologic type (52.6% of the cases), and mesangial proliferative glomerulonephritis (21.1%), membranoproliferative glomerulonephritis (12.3%) and minimal change (12.3%) were the other types of...

Introduction: Nephrotic syndrome (NS) is a common chronic kidney disease in childhood and it mostly idiopathic.  Aim of the Study: To determine if uVDBP measurements can be used as non-invasive prognostic biomarker cases idiopathic NS its relation to Ca/P metabolism.   Methods: This prospective study was carried out on children who were newly diagnosed with nephrotic presented pediatric nephrol...

Nephrotic syndrome (NS) is a renal disorder characterized by heavy proteinuria, hypoalbuninemia, edema and hypercholesterolemia. Nephrotic syndrome in children is known to be associated with an hypercoagulable state and thromboembolic complications. However cerebral sinovenous thrombosis (CSVT) is very rare. Here we report a seven-year-old child with steroid-dependent idopathic nephrotic syndro...

Idiopathic nephrotic syndrome (INS) is one of the most common glomerular diseases in children and adults, and the central event is podocyte injury. INS is a heterogeneous disease, and treatment is largely empirical and in many cases unsuccessful, and steroids are the initial mainstay of therapy. Close to 70% of children with INS have some response to steroids and are labelled as steroid-'sensit...