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Nephrotic syndrome at 5 months: no definitive treatment or complications for 12 years
M B Garza1, M Guttenberg, B S Kaplan
1Division of Nephrology, The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, University of Pennsylvania, 34th Street and Civic Center Boulevard, Philadelphia, PA 19104, USA,
Pediatric Nephrology (Berlin, Germany)
|August 25, 1999
Abstract:
We describe a patient who developed nephrotic syndrome at 5 months, with extensive glomerular and tubular damage on biopsy. The patient was treated with diuretics and was asymptomatic for a decade despite unremitting proteinuria. A repeat biopsy at 13 years of age showed remarkable healing with histopathological features consistent with "minimal change" nephrotic syndrome. This patient illustrates a favorable clinical outcome, without specific treatment, of nephrotic syndrome of long duration.