Spontaneous remission of minimal change nephrotic syndrome in an elderly man

A case of nephrotic syndrome with rapid spontaneous remission in an elderly patient.

In July 1994, a 70-year-old woman was diagnosed as having nephrotic syndrome with proteinuria of 8 to 10 g/day and a serum albumin level of 1.8 g/dl. She was hospitalized in August 1994 for investigation. The urinary findings then normalized, with urinary protein and occult blood both negative and total urinary protein excretion at 0 g/day. A renal biopsy was performed, and spontaneous remissio...

Intravenous methylprednisolone in minimal change nephrotic syndrome.

Spontaneous remission of nephrotic syndrome in idiopathic membranous nephropathy.

Spontaneous remission is a well known characteristic of idiopathic membranous nephropathy, but contemporary studies describing predictors of remission and long-term outcomes are lacking. We conducted a retrospective, multicenter cohort study of 328 patients with nephrotic syndrome resulting from idiopathic membranous nephropathy that initially received conservative therapy. Spontaneous remissio...

Spontaneous remission of nephrotic syndrome in patients with IgA nephropathy.

BACKGROUND IgA nephropathy (IgAN) can be complicated by nephrotic syndrome. Because the spontaneous resolution of heavy proteinuria is rare, corticosteroid therapy should be considered in such cases, particularly when IgAN is combined with minimal-change disease. Here, we report our experience of spontaneous remission of nephrotic syndrome in patients with IgAN and the long-term outcomes of the...

Spontaneous remission of nephrotic syndrome in idiopathic membran-

Sir, We thank Dr Solak for his comments about our article. Glomerulonephritis is a rare disorder, and various reports tell us that the incidence of glomerulonephritis is 12.5–47 per million population [1,2]. However, there are not enough data about the prevalence of glomerulonephritis. For this reason, we did not use a control group. Another reason was that we had a small patient population for...