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Case Report: Nephrotic syndrome with minimal change disease during anti-tuberculosis treatment and tiopronin use

Key takeaways

This is a single-patient report of a kidney condition called minimal change disease, which causes heavy protein loss in the urine, that appeared during tuberculosis treatment and use of a drug called tiopronin. One case cannot prove the drugs were the cause.

Who did this work

Heng Liao (University of Electronic Science and Technology of China) · Fei Yan (University of Electronic Science and Technology of China) · Xingxia Liu (Sichuan Provincial Hospital of Traditional Chinese Medicine)

Source

Indexed paper · OpenAlex — CKD concept sweep (DB seed + weekly delta) · 2026-08-10
https://doi.org/10.3389/fmed.2026.1807135