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Lithium-induced nephrotic syndrome in a young pediatric patient

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Lithium-induced nephrotic syndrome is a rare complication of lithium therapy and is even rarer in children. Most reported cases have been secondary to minimal change disease, which reverses within 1–4 weeks on discontinuation of lithium therapy. However, focal glomerulosclerosis (FSGS) has occasionally been reported and is not always reversible with discontinuation of lithium. We report an 11-year-old child with lithium-induced FSGS nephrotic syndrome who went into full remission after lithium was discontinued.

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  1. Department of Pediatrics, University of South Carolina School of Medicine, Columbia, South Carolina, USA, USA

    Abdullah Sakarcan

  2. Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, University of North Carolina Hospitals, North Carolina, USA, USA

    David B. Thomas

  3. Division of Nephrology and Hypertension, University of North Carolina Hospitals, North Carolina, USA, USA

    Kevin P. O’Reilly

  4. Greenville Psychiatry, Greenville, South Carolina, USA, USA

    Robert W. Richards

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Received: 11 June 2001 / Revised: 9 October 2001 / Accepted: 9 October 2001

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Sakarcan, A., Thomas, D., O’Reilly, K. et al. Lithium-induced nephrotic syndrome in a young pediatric patient. Pediatr Nephrol 17, 290–292 (2002). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00467-001-0809-7

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