CASE STUDIES

 

A difficult case of nephrotic syndrome
By R. Coppo

Prof R. Coppo
Professor at the post-graduate School of Nephrology and
post-graduate School of Pediatrics of the University of Turin, Italy.
Chief of the Nephrology, Dialysis and Transplantation Department
and of the Dialysis and Transplantation Laboratory
Regina Margherita Hospital
Turin, Italy.

 


When renal biopsy was done, a picture of minimal change disease (MCD) was detected, with mild mesangial enlargement (Figure 1). Prednisone therapy was prescribed.

Figure 1

 

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