There has been a re-emergence of interest in adrenocorticotropic hormone (ACTH) in patients with resistant nephrotic syndrome. We describe a patient with severe nephrosis and advanced chronic kidney disease with idiopathic membranous nephropathy resistant to conventional immunosuppressive therapies that achieved lasting remission with ACTH therapy. We explore the literature showing the extra re...

UNLABELLED Tregs infusion reverts proteinuria and reduces renal lesions in most animal models of nephrotic syndrome (i.e. Buffalo/Mna, Adriamycin, Promycin, LPS). IL2 up-regulates Tregs and may be an alternative to cell-therapy in this setting. To evaluate a potential role of IL2 as Tregs inducer and proteinuria lowering agent in human nephrotic syndrome we treated 5 nephrotic patients with 6 m...

introduction: cerebral vein thrombosis is a rare complication of nephrotic syndrome (ns).we report a known case of ns with hemorrhagic thrombosis. case report: a boy with previous history of ns was admitted with headache and decrease of level of consciousness and his brain images were revealed hemorrhagic thrombosis conclusions: cerebral vein thrombosis must be considered in patients with histo...

purpose: to report a case of cystinosis and idiopathic intracranial hypertention associated with duane syndrome type i. case report: a 15 years old girl and a known case of nephrotic cystinosis presented to eye clinic with complaints of lid fissure changes on horizontal gaze and headache since 6 months ago. she was obese and had short stature. she had history of kidney transplantation 6 years a...

 Minimal Change Disease (MCD) is the leading cause of childhood Nephrotic Syndrome (NS). Therefore in pediatrics nephrotic syndrome, most children beyond the first year of life will be treated with corticosteroids without an initial biopsy. Children with NS often display a number of calcium homeostasis disturbances causing abnormal bone histology, including hypocalcemia, reduced serum vitamin D...

background it has been proposed that reactive oxygen species (ros) is involved in the pathogenesis of various diseases. paraoxonase, a high-density lipoprotein associated enzyme, prevents low-density lipoproteins from oxidation. objectives the aim of the present study was to investigate the serum activities of paraoxonase-1 (pon-1), and aryleterase (are) as well as total antioxidant capacity (t...

Rituximab (RTX) is a monoclonal antibody; recently it has been use as a new treatment strategy in patients with high-degree steroid-dependent nephrotic syndrome. It provokes a lymphocyte B depletion in some cases that interacts with Immunoglobulins creating decreased plasma IgG levels and hypogammaglobulinemia. We report the case of a 2.5 year old male diagnosed of idiopathic nephrotic syndrome...

BACKGROUND The deliberate use of ketoconazole to reduce the need for cyclosporine (CsA) is not new, but it is particularly relevant because of the high cost of CsA. Many studies have documented this benefit in renal and cardiac transplants, but this co-administration has not been reported in patients with nephrotic syndrome. METHODS This retrospective study included 207 nephrotic patients who...