Erschienen in:
14.03.2018 | Scientific Letter
Validation of Predictors of Relapse in Steroid Sensitive Idiopathic Nephrotic Syndrome
verfasst von:
Neha Agarwal, Abhishek Abhinay, Rabindra N. Mishra, Rajniti Prasad, Ankur Singh, Om P. Mishra
Erschienen in:
Indian Journal of Pediatrics
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Ausgabe 7/2018
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Excerpt
To the Editor: About 70% of the patients of idiopathic nephrotic syndrome in children experience relapse after treatment of first episode [
1]. We found younger age at onset of disease and longer time to response as predictors of relapse and derived formulae using discriminant function analysis tool [
2]; however, it needed validation for their prediction. The objectives of the present study were to validate the previously derived formulae on newly prospectively enrolled patients, and also re-derive new formulae by combining previous retrospectively and prospectively enrolled patients’ data and assess their predictive ability for relapses. …