A recent study found that a 24-week course of oral tacrolimus (along with tapering doses of prednisone) might be an effective alternative to ciclosporin in Chinese adults with steroid-dependent ...

RECENT advances in knowledge of the nature of the nephrotic syndrome have led to more rational therapy. The purpose of this communication is to review this progress. The nephrotic syndrome is a ...

Proteinuria is the presence of too much protein in the urine. It is typically a sign of kidney disease, often in people diagnosed with diabetes, but also can occur with pregnancy, lupus, and other ...

Children with minimal change nephrotic syndrome in drug free remission are considered to have normal renal and haemodynamic parameters during proteinuria- and drug-free episodes. [14,15 ...

Voclosporin (ISA-247) is under development for the treatment of lupus nephritis (LN), minimal change disease (MCD), idiopathic nephrotic syndrome and coronavirus disease 2019 caused by the severe ...

Introduction: Podocytopathies are a uniquely renal disease syndrome, in which direct or indirect podocyte injury leads to proteinuria ... The primary search terms included “podocytopathies,” “minimal ...

肾病综合征（nephrotic syndrome ... MN）、微小病变性肾病（minimal-­change nephropathy，MCD）、系膜增生性肾炎（mesiangial proliferative glomerulonephritis, MPGN ...

Dr. Annie Liu (Medicine): A 35-year-old woman was admitted to this hospital because of shortness of breath and edema in the legs. Eight weeks before the current presentation, the patient was ...

This rare syndrome can change your accent ©Shutterstock It is true that many rare medical conditions have extremely bizarre symptoms, but foreign accent syndrome (FAS) is up there! FAS is a rare ...

Methods: Plasma volume (PV) and red cell volume (RCV) were measured and F-cell ratio was calculated in 77 children with idiopathic nephrotic syndrome in drug-free remission (mean age, 9.8 ± 4.6 y).

"Most homeowners throughout Vancouver Island can expect minimal change with their 2025 assessment values, generally being in the range of -5 to +5 per cent," says deputy assessor Matthew Butterfield ...