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This document discusses minimal change disease (MCD), the most common cause of nephrotic syndrome in children. MCD is characterized by selective proteinuria and hypoalbuminemia without significant glomerular abnormalities. The pathogenesis of MCD involves an intrinsic or extrinsic circulating permeability factor produced by T cells that damages the glomerular epithelial foot processes, reducing the normal charge barrier and causing protein leakage. Interleukin-13 has been implicated in MCD and experimental
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- kamal
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