Steroid resistant nephrotic syndrome: Role of histopathology

Indian Pediatrics

Volumn 43, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 55-60

  Gulati, Sanjeev ^a   Sengupta, Debashish ^a   Sharma, Raj K ^a   Sharma, Ajay ^a   Gupta, Ramesh K ^a   Singh, Uttam ^a   Gupta, Amit ^a  

^a SANJAY GANDHI POSTGRADUATE INSTITUTE OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (India)

Author keywords

Focal segmental glomerulosclerosis; Minimal change disease; Nephrotic syndrome; Steroid resistance

Indexed keywords

AZATHIOPRINE; CYCLOPHOSPHAMIDE; CYCLOSPORIN; DEXAMETHASONE; PREDNISONE; STEROID;

ADOLESCENT; ARTICLE; CHILD; CLINICAL EXAMINATION; CLINICAL FEATURE; COMPARTMENT MODEL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEMOGRAPHY; FEMALE; FOCAL GLOMERULOSCLEROSIS; FOLLOW UP; GLOMERULUS FILTRATION RATE; HEMATURIA; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; KIDNEY BIOPSY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MINIMAL CHANGE GLOMERULONEPHRITIS; NEPHROTIC SYNDROME; PREVALENCE; PROGNOSIS; PROTEINURIA; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE;

ADOLESCENT; BIOPSY, NEEDLE; CHI-SQUARE DISTRIBUTION; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; DRUG RESISTANCE; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; IMMUNOSUPPRESSIVE AGENTS; KIDNEY FUNCTION TESTS; MALE; NEPHROTIC SYNDROME; PROBABILITY; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK ASSESSMENT; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; STEROIDS; SURVIVAL RATE; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 32644434049     PISSN: 00196061     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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