BACKGROUND/AIMS: Renal biopsy is the gold standard to determine the pathologic type of primary nephrotic syndrome, which is critical for diagnosis, choice of treatment and evaluation of prognosis. However, in some cases, renal biopsy cannot be perfor...
BACKGROUND: Prognosis of nephrotic syndrome has been evaluated based on pathological diagnosis, whereas its clinical course is monitored using objective items and the treatment strategy is largely the same. We examined whether the entire natural hist...
INTRODUCTION: Membranous nephropathy is an autoimmune kidney disease and the most common cause of nephrotic syndrome in non-diabetic Caucasian adults. Rituximab is now recommended as first-line therapy for membranous nephropathy. However, Kidney Dise...