Nephrotic syndrome is a chronic disease

Nephrotic syndrome is indeed a chronic disease caused by various reasons, glomerular filtration barrier damage, patients appear a lot of proteinuria, 24 hours urine protein quantitative more than 3.5 grams, plasma albumin less than 30 grams per liter, this patient to carry out etiological treatment.

If there is no other reason, it is primary nephrotic syndrome, according to the patient's pathological type, and the degree of protein and choose hormone or hormone combined with immunosuppressant treatment.

This disease induction treatment, the use of hormone or immunosuppressant induction treatment, generally takes about two months, effective after the slow reduction of drugs, and finally with small doses of hormone maintenance, and may even stop the drug, but this problem is also easy to relapse.

So from this point of view, it is a chronic disease, if it is left alone, long-term development, it is likely to develop into uremia.