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.

A new trial provides further evidence that rituximab treatment can reduce the risk of relapse in children with steroid-dependent idiopathic nephrotic syndrome. Addition of a single infusion of ...

Experts emphasise that while not all eye swelling indicates kidney problems, early evaluation with urine and blood tests ...

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 ...

Nephrotic syndrome is characterized by a set of signs and symptoms including proteinuria, low protein levels in the blood, hypercholesterolemia, hypertriglyceridemia, and edema. It may be caused by ...

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 ...

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 ...

For children with nephrotic syndrome, there was no difference in time to relapse between two commonly used non-steroid immunosuppressive medications, according to an observational study that emulated ...

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 ...

Every human being wants to live a healthy and disease-free life. This includes internal and external health both. While it is easier to take care of external health, we usually ignore the importance ...