Adult survivors of childhood-onset steroid-dependent and steroid-resistant nephrotic syndrome treated with cyclosporine: a long-term single-center experience.
Yoichi TakemasaShuichiro FujinagaMayu NakagawaKoji SakurayaDaishi HiranoPublished in: Pediatric nephrology (Berlin, Germany) (2023)
More than 50% of adult survivors treated with CS continued to have active disease, and each 20% developed CKD or hypertension. A long-term follow-up is necessary for patients with SD/SRNS to identify the development of kidney complications later in adulthood that can be attributed to prior disease and CS treatment in childhood, irrespective of disease activity. A higher resolution version of the Graphical abstract is available as Supplementary information.
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