TY - BOOK AU - Ashraf Elshahat Gaber Ayad AU - Hala Salah Eldin Talaat , AU - Mohamed Farouk Mohamed , AU - Samar Mohamed Sabry , TI - Evaluation of different treatment strategies for childhood steroid-dependent and steroid-resistant nephrotic syndrome / PY - 2012/// CY - Cairo : PB - Ashraf Elshahat Gaber Ayad , KW - Nephrotic syndrome KW - Steroid-dependent nephrotic syndrome KW - Steroid-resistant nephrotic syndrome N1 - Thesis (M.Sc.) - Cairo University - Faculty of Medicine - Department of Pediatrics; Issued also as CD N2 - Nephrotic syndrome (NS) is a common childhood kidney disease caused by impaired glomerular function, characterized by protein leakage from the blood to the urine through the glomeruli, resulting in proteinuria, hypoalbuminemia, hypercholesterolemia and generalized edema. NS is descriptively classified upon the patients' response to steroid treatment as steroid-sensitive NS (SSNS) or steroid-resistant NS-SRNS UR - http://172.23.153.220/th.pdf ER -