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ReviewPediatric nephrology (Berlin, Germany)2014

The nephrotic syndrome: pathogenesis and treatment of edema formation and secondary complications.

Melissa A Cadnapaphornchai, Oleksandra Tkachenko, Dmitry Shchekochikhin, Robert W Schrier

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Review in Pediatric nephrology (Berlin, Germany), 2014. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 19 papers, 2 of them syntheses that pooled it.

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19citing papers in PubMed, 2 pooled it
1.2field-weighted citation impact, top 22% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.

The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

19 citing papers in PubMed, 2 syntheses or guidelines pooled it, 44 citations in OpenAlex.

  1. Pooled it
  2. Guideline
  3. Podocytopathies.Nature reviews. Disease primers · 2025
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  11. An unusual disease mimicking congenital nephrotic syndrome: Answers.Pediatric nephrology (Berlin, Germany) · 2021
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  12. Mechanisms and management of edema in pediatric nephrotic syndrome.Pediatric nephrology (Berlin, Germany) · 2021
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  13. Observational
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  17. The non-immunosuppressive management of childhood nephrotic syndrome.Pediatric nephrology (Berlin, Germany) · 2016
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

4 authors at 3 institutions in 1 country.

Melissa A CadnapaphornchaiChildren's Hospital Colorado/University of Colorado, Anschutz Medical Campus, 13123 East 16th Avenue, Box B328, Aurora, CO, 80045, USA, Melissa.Cadnapaphornchai@ucdenver.edu.
Oleksandra Tkachenko
Dmitry Shchekochikhin
Robert W Schrier
University of Colorado Denver · USChildren's Hospital Colorado · USUniversity of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus · US

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Nephrotic syndrome is an important clinical condition affecting both children and adults. Studies suggest that the pathogenesis of edema in individual patients may occur via widely variable mechanisms, i.e., intravascular volume underfilling versus overfilling. Managing edema should therefore be directed to the underlying pathophysiology. Nephrotic syndrome is also associated with clinically important complications related to urinary loss of proteins other than albumin. This educational review focuses on the pathophysiology and management of edema and secondary complications in patients with nephrotic syndrome.

Indexed as

DiureticsEdemaHumansNephrotic SyndromeDiuretics

Identifiers

PMID23989393
OpenAlexW2050730615

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