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A boy with proteinuria and focal global glomerulosclerosis: Question

Authors: Sidharth Kumar Sethi, Edgar A. Otto, Sara Ma, Rajan Duggal, Virginia Vega-Warner, Vijay Kher

Published in: Pediatric Nephrology | Issue 11/2015

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A 5.5-year-old boy presented to our clinic with a history of persistent nephrotic-range proteinuria since he was 1.5 years old without signs of edema. He had been on steroids since then with minimal response. He was started on enalapril at age 2 years, with minimal response. He had received oral cyclophosphamide for 12 weeks and a course of mycophenolate mofetil for 1 year, with no response. He had also undergone a dimercaptosuccinic acid radionuclide scan and a voiding cystourethrogram (VCUG), both of which were normal. …

Title: A boy with proteinuria and focal global glomerulosclerosis: Question
Authors: Sidharth Kumar Sethi
Edgar A. Otto
Sara Ma
Rajan Duggal
Virginia Vega-Warner
Vijay Kher
Publication date: 01-11-2015
Publisher: Springer Berlin Heidelberg
Published in: Pediatric Nephrology / Issue 11/2015
Print ISSN: 0931-041X
Electronic ISSN: 1432-198X
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s00467-014-2959-4

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