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steroid‑resistant nephrotic syndrome (SRNS)

- Acknowledgements

Egyptian Pediatric Clinical Practice Guidelines Committee (EPG)

Guideline Development/ Adaptation Group (Clinicians subgroup)

Name

Affiliation, Area of expertise / Country / Primary location [work]

Contribution

Bahia Moustafa

Professor of Pediatrics & Pediatric Nephrology, Cairo University,

Egypt

Clinical expert

Sawsan Moselhy

Department of Pediatric, Pediatric Nephrology Division, Faculty of Medicine, Ain Shams University, Cairo, Egypt.

Clinical expert

Moftah Rabie

Department

of Pediatric, Pediatric Nephrology Division, Faculty of Medicine, Azhar

University, Cairo, Egypt.

Clinical expert

Ayman Hammad

Department of Pediatric, Pediatric Nephrology

Division, Faculty of Medicine, Mansoura University, Mansoura, Egypt.

Clinical expert

Doaa Youssef

Department

of Pediatric, Pediatric Nephrology Division, Faculty of Medicine, Zagazig

University, Zagazig, Egypt.

Clinical expert

Mohamed Shouman

Department of Pediatric, Medical Research

and Clinical Studies Institute, National Research Centre, Cairo, Egypt.

Clinical expert

Samuel Makar

Department of Pediatric, Pediatric Nephrology Division, Faculty of Medicine,

Cairo University, Cairo, Egypt

Clinical expert

Ahmed Badr

Department of Pediatric, Pediatric Nephrology Division, Faculty of Medicine,

Cairo University, Cairo, Egypt

Clinical expert

Sameh Mansour

Department

of Pediatric, Pediatric Nephrology Division, Faculty of Medicine, Azhar

University, Cairo, Egypt.

Clinical expert

Dina Ebrahim

Department of Pediatric, Pediatric Nephrology

Division, Faculty of Medicine, Ain Shams University, Cairo, Egypt.

Clinical expert

Marwa Nabhan

Department of Pediatric, Pediatric Nephrology Division, Faculty of Medicine,

Cairo University, Cairo, Egypt

Clinical expert

Fatma Ateia

Department of Pediatric, Pediatric Nephrology Division, Faculty of Medicine,

Cairo University, Cairo, Egypt

Clinical expert

Hend Abdel‑Nabi

Department

of Pediatric, Pediatric Nephrology Division, Faculty of Medicine, Tanta

University, Tanta, Egypt.

Clinical expert

Ahmed Hussein

Department of Pediatric, Pediatric Nephrology

Division, Faculty of Medicine, Ain Shams University, Cairo, Egypt.

Clinical expert

Manal Salman

Department of Pathology, Faculty of Medicine, Ain

Shams University, Cairo, Egypt.

Clinical expert

Mai S. Korkor

Department of Pediatric, Pediatric Nephrology

Division, Faculty of Medicine, Mansoura University, Mansoura, Egypt.

Clinical expert

Esraa A. Elbahkiry

Clinical Pharmacist, Faculty of Medicine,

Mansoura University, Mansoura, Egypt.

Clinical expert

Marwa Dagher

Clinical Pharmacist, Faculty of Medicine,

Mansoura University, Mansoura, Egypt.

Clinical expert

Abeer Selim

Department of Pediatric, Medical Research

and Clinical Studies Institute, National Research Centre, Cairo, Egypt.

Clinical expert

Egyptian Pediatric Clinical Practice Guidelines Committee (EPG)

Guideline Development/ Adaptation Group (Guideline Methodologists subgroup)

Name

Affiliation, Area of expertise / Country / Primary location [work]

Contribution

Prof. Ashraf Abdel Baky

Professor of Pediatrics

Ain Shams University, Egypt

Founder and Chair of EPG

Overseeing the adolopment process of the guidelines, training and education of new members, revision of the final draft, and organizing online meetings of GDG

Dr. Yasser Sami Amer

1.      Pediatrics Department and Clinical Practice Guidelines and Quality Research Unit, Quality Management Department, King Saud University Medical City, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia;

2.      Research Chair for Evidence-Based Health Care and Knowledge Translation, King Saud University, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia;

3.      Chair, Adaptation Working Group, Guidelines International Network (GIN), Perth, Scotland

4.     Department of Internal Medicine, Ribeirão Preto Medical School, University of São Paulo (FMRP-USP), Ribeirão Preto, São Paulo, Brazil.

Overseeing the adolopment process of the guidelines, training and education of new members, participating in writing up the methodology of adaptation process, guideline appraisal, and revision of the final draft

Tarek El-Sayed Ismail Omar

Professor of Pediatrics and Pediatric Neurology

Alexandria Center for Evidence‑Based

Clinical Practice Guidelines

Faculty of Medicine Alexandria University, Egypt.

Overseeing the adolopment process of the guidelines, participating in writing up the methodology of adaptation process, guideline appraisal, and revision of the final draft

Dr. Lamis Mohsen Elsholkamy

 

 

Lecturer of Pediatrics, Faculty of Medicine, Modern University for Technology and Information (MTI), Egypt

Participating in multiple steps of the guideline adaptation process, Writing the methodology of adaptation process and revised the whole document.

External Reviewers Group (ERG)

External Reviewer(s) for Clinical Content

Name

Affiliation, Area of expertise / Country / Primary location [work]

Amr Sarhan

Pediatric Nephrology Mansoura University

 

Neveen A Soliman

Pediatric Nephrology Cairo University

Ihab El Hakim

Pediatric Nephrology Ain Shams University

International Peer Reviewers

Federica Zotta

Division of Nephrology, Department of Pediatric subspecialities. Bambino Gesu Children Hospital (IRCCS), Rome, Italy.

External Reviewer(s) for methodology

Prof. Iván D. Flórez

Department of Pediatrics, University of Antioquia, Medellín, Colombia,

Department of Health Research Methods, Evidence, and Impact, McMaster University, Hamilton, Canada,

Leader, AGREE Collaboration (Appraisal of Guidelines for Research & Evaluation)

Director, Cochrane Colombia


·   The GDG/ GAG acknowledge EPG for its help in completing this project.

·   We acknowledge IPNA clinical practice recommendations for the diagnosis and management of children with steroid-resistant nephrotic syndrome (2020), Japanese Society of Nephrology and the Japanese Society for Pediatric Nephrology (2015), KDIGO Clinical Practice Guideline on Glomerular Diseases (2012), Kidney disease: Improving Global Outcomes (KDIGO) Glomerular Disease Work Group (2021) and KDIGO 2021 Clinical Practice Guideline for the management of Glomerular Diseases (2021) (the source original guidelines) for their cooperation in providing the permission for adapting our guidelines.

·   Finally, we wish the best for all our patients and their families who inspired us. It is for them this work is being finalized.

Funding

·   This work is not related to any pharmaceutical or industrial company. The members of the GDG/ GAG and their institutes and universities volunteered their participation and contributions.