They included 578 children with steroid-sensitive nephrotic syndrome diagnosed from 1996 to 2019. Median age at diagnosis was 3.7 years, and 64% were boys.

Tacrolimus outshined another immunosuppressive drug at extending relapse-free survival in kids with frequently relapsing or steroid-dependent nephrotic syndrome in a randomized study from China ...

Mycophenolate mofetil may be a viable alternative to steroids for induction therapy in children with steroid-sensitive idiopathic nephrotic syndrome, researchers found in a study. Investigators ...

The children were aged 3 to 16 years, with steroid-dependent nephrotic syndrome. All children were naïve to steroid-sparing agents prior to enrollment, and all had undergone kidney biopsy to ...

Tacrolimus significantly extends relapse-free survival compared with mycophenolate mofetil (MMF) in children with frequently relapsing nephrotic syndrome (FRNS) or steroid-dependent nephrotic ...

Good news about the treatment of kids with nephrotic syndrome, the most common kidney disease in children. Treatment for the illness--corticosteroid drugs such as prednisone--can lead to bone loss ...

Nephrotic syndrome is a kidney condition that causes the organs to leak protein into the urine. This is caused by faults in the kidney's filtration system and in some cases, this can ultimately ...