Guidelines

IPNA reviews the best evidence in Pediatric Nephrology to produce or endorse guidelines, providing guidance on the best practices for diagnosing and managing pediatric kidney diseases.

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IPNA follows a rigorous process for development of clinical practice guidelines that have relevance and applicability internationally.

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2nd IPNA guideline on management of steroid-sensitive nephrotic syndrome in children has gone online on October 22, 2022 in Pediatric Nephrology.

This guideline will help to improve the global care of children suffering from nephrotic syndrome.

Translations of this guideline as well as a brochure for patients and families will be available in 14 different languages soon.

IPNA clinical practice recommendations for the diagnosis and management of children with steroid‑sensitive nephrotic
syndrome

Educational resources:

The guideline was presented in the IPNA webinar on the 1^st of December 2022, please watch the webinar recording HERE.

The slide set for teaching purposes is available HERE.

IPNA guideline on SSNS in children (PDF) IPNA CPR SSNS slideset for teaching

Recommendations for the Diagnosis and Management of Children with Steroid-Resistant Nephrotic Syndrome (SRNS)

Translations available in 14 languages

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IPNA IgAN-V Guideline in Development

23.1. – 24.1.2023 IPNA IgAN/IgAV F2F meeting (hybrid) in Leuven, Belgium

3.1.2023 – Work in progress.

Another productive meeting of the IPNA Best practices & standards subcommittee for clinical practice recommendations for IgAN/IgA.

IPNA aHUS Guideline in Development

Atypical hemolytic uremic syndrome (aHUS) is a rare, complement-driven thrombotic microangiopathy (TMA).

With the advent of the complement C5 antibody eculizumab, outcomes of aHUS patients have significantly improved including outcomes of patients with kidney transplants.

18.1.2023

IPNA aHUS guidelines in development. Stay tuned.

Given the rarity of aHUS and the resulting lack of randomized controlled trials, international treatment guidelines are currently not available and treatment recommendations are typically based on expert opinion. In addition, access to the prohibitively expensive eculizumab is limited to economically privileged countries thus creating an inacceptable and unjust global imbalance with respect to the management of aHUS patients. On this background and given its focus on the management of rare kidney diseases, IPNA initiated the development of clinical practice recommendations (CPRs) for aHUS. As for other IPNA CPRs, the new aHUS CPR will be developed applying the GRADE approach using PICO (population-intervention-comparator-outcome) questions on diagnosis and treatment of aHUS, will be based on information extracted from the available literature graded by evidence (“evidence tables”), and will eventually be published.

Guidelines

IPNA follows a rigorous process for development of clinical practice guidelines that have relevance and applicability internationally.

List of guidelines

IPNA clinical practice recommendations for the diagnosis and management of children with steroid‑sensitive nephrotic syndrome

Recommendations for the Diagnosis and Management of Children with Steroid-Resistant Nephrotic Syndrome (SRNS)

Atypical hemolytic uremic syndrome (aHUS) is a rare, complement-driven thrombotic microangiopathy (TMA).

IPNA App is here.

IPNA clinical practice recommendations for the diagnosis and management of children with steroid‑sensitive nephrotic
syndrome