TY - JOUR AU - Yan, Gaofei AU - Liu, Guanzhi AU - Tian, Xuefei AU - Tian, Lifang AU - Wang, Hao AU - Ren, Peiyao AU - Ma, Xiaotao AU - Fu, Rongguo AU - Chen, Zhao PY - 2020 DA - 2020/09/14 TI - Establishment of a novel nomogram for the clinically diagnostic prediction of minimal change disease, −a common cause of nephrotic syndrome JO - BMC Nephrology SP - 396 VL - 21 IS - 1 AB - Minimal change disease (MCD) is one of the major causes of nephrotic syndrome (NS). A confirmed MCD diagnosis mainly depends on renal biopsy at present, which is an invasive procedure with many potential risks. The overall incidence of complications caused by renal biopsy procedures has been reported as approximately 11 and 6.6% outside and within China, respectively. Unfortunately, there is currently no noninvasive procedure or practical classification method for distinguishing MCD from other primary glomerular diseases available. SN - 1471-2369 UR - https://doi.org/10.1186/s12882-020-02058-3 DO - 10.1186/s12882-020-02058-3 ID - Yan2020 ER -