T Cells and Minimal Change Disease
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EDITORIALS T Cells and Minimal Change Disease ROBYN
It is one of the ironies of medical practice that as physicians we can competently and confidently treat diseases of whose pathogenesis we remain woefully ignorant. Such is the case with minimal change disease, the most common diagnosis associated with the nephrotic syndrome in children (MCNS). The disease manifestations of nephroticrange proteinuria, hypoalbuminemia, and hyperlipidemia in such...
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عنوان ژورنال: Journal of the American Society of Nephrology
سال: 2002
ISSN: 1046-6673,1533-3450
DOI: 10.1097/01.asn.0000016406.82019.b3