Nephrotic syndrome is a group of symptoms that indicate that the kidneys are not functioning as they should. Nephrotic syndrome can result from diseases that affect just the kidneys or the entire body ...

Prolonged hyperlipidaemia in nephrotic syndrome is a major risk factor for multiple disease complications, including accelerated atherosclerosis, myocardial infarction, stroke, chronic kidney disease ...

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.

Nephrotic syndrome is a clinical entity defined by heavy proteinuria, hypoalbuminemia, hyperlipidemia, and edema, stemming from various glomerular diseases. Diagnosis requires a comprehensive ...

Treatment of children with the steroid-resistant nephrotic syndrome (SRNS) is challenging. During the past decade, rituximab was found to be a promising agent in managing SRNS that was resistant to ...

Hypercholesterolaemia is a characteristic of nephrotic syndrome that likely contributes to the increased cardiovascular risk associated with the disease; however, therapies to reduce cholesterol ...

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 ...

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 ...

A group led by the Department of Cell Biology at the Kidney Research Center, Niigata University revealed that elevated activity of cdc42 is a critical initiation event leading to proteinuria, and ...

Nephrotic Syndrome is a group of symptoms that, together, indicate that your kidneys are not working as well as they should. Lupus Nephritis (LN) is the term used when lupus causes inflammation in ...

Nephrotic syndrome isn’t a disease. It’s a group of symptoms that can appear if your kidneys aren’t working right. You might have a condition that affects only your kidneys. Doctors call that a ...

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 ...