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Hiroyuki Takao1, Kentaro Nishi2, Takanori Funaki3
1Center for Postgraduate Education and Training, National Center for Child Health and Development, Tokyo, Japan.
Objective:
We studied infection rates and risk factors for infection in current patients with idiopathic nephrotic syndrome (INS).
Study Design:
This retrospective cohort study included the clinical data for children with diagnosed INS in our center between January 2010 and December 2020. The infection rates and risk factors were analyzed.
Results:
We enrolled 187 patients, including 85 cases with steroid-dependent/frequently relapsing nephrotic syndrome and 45 with steroid-resistant nephrotic syndrome. Infection was observed a total of 84 times in 55 patients (95.5 per 1000 person-years). Pneumonia was the most common infection (21 cases, 23.9 per 1000 person-years), followed by febrile neutropenia (12 cases, 13.7 per 1000 person-years), whereas peritonitis and bacteremia were observed in only 3 and 2 cases, respectively. The multivariate analyses by logistic regression showed that rituximab treatment was significantly associated with infections in pediatric INS (P = .001). The infection rate during the B-cell-depleted state with immunosuppressants (318 per 1000 person-years) was greater than that with normal B-cell count with immunosuppressants (109 per 1000 person-years) or without immunosuppressants (76 per 1000 person-years).
Conclusion:
Common infections, such as peritonitis and bacteremia, decreased, whereas infections associated with medication (eg, rituximab) increased. The rate of infection increases during B-cell depletion after treatments with rituximab and other immunosuppressants.
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