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Recent advances in understanding and treating nephrotic syndrome
2017-02-09
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Idiopathic nephrotic syndrome (INS) is one of the most common glomerular diseases in children and adults, and the central event is podocyte injury. INS is a heterogeneous disease, and treatment is largely empirical and in many cases unsuccessful, and steroids are the initial mainstay of therapy. Close to 70% of children with INS have some response to steroids and are labelled as steroid-‘sensitive’, and the rest a...
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- Literature Corpus work
- dc393d70-9ce1-5c8e-aa33-6a0b3bea9341
- DOI
- 10.12688/f1000research.10165.1