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To the Editor: In their review article, Orth and Ritz (April 23 issue)¹ state that membranous nephropathy is the most common cause of idiopathic nephrotic syndrome in adults, citing as a source data from a book published in 1988.² According to these data, summarized in Table 1 of the article, minimal-change nephropathy is the second most common cause of adult nephrotic syndrome, and focal segmental glomerulosclerosis is third, accounting for fewer than 15 percent of such cases. However, recent data from three separate groups^3,4,5 indicate that over the past 25 years and particularly during the past decade, there has been . . . [Full Text of this Article]

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