Agnes Trautmann, Marina Vivarelli, Susan Samuel, Debbie Gipson, Aditi Sinha, Franz Schaefer, Ng Kar Hui, Olivia Boyer, Moin A Saleem, Luciana Feltran, Janina Müller-Deile, Jan Ulrich Becker, Francisco Cano, Hong Xu, Yam Ngo Lim, William Smoyer, Ifeoma Anochie, Koichi Nakanishi, Elisabeth Hodson, Dieter Haffner
Idiopathic nephrotic syndrome newly affects 1-3 per 100,000 children per year. Approximately 85% of cases show complete remission of proteinuria following glucocorticoid treatment. Patients who do not achieve complete remission within 4-6 weeks of glucocorticoid treatment have steroid-resistant nephrotic syndrome (SRNS). In 10-30% of steroid-resistant patients, mutations in podocyte-associated genes can be detected, whereas an undefined circulating factor of immune origin is assumed in the remaining ones...
August 2020: Pediatric Nephrology