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Spontaneous resolution of infantile nephrotic syndrome
1Department of Pediatrics, King Fahd Hospital of the University, PO Box 2208, Al-Khobar 31952, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. achishti@hospital.kfu.edu.sa
Saudi Medical Journal
|February 19, 2003
Abstract:
Congenital nephrosis is a rare disease with universally accepted poor prognosis; despite developments in the pathogenesis and management, these children are always a challenge to the caregivers and families. Reported here, is a case of a 6-month-old female infant with infantile nephrotic syndrome, who went into spontaneous resolution within a week without therapy and remained asymptomatic for the following 2 years.