[11] The aim of the earlier study was to determine whether children with idiopathic nephrotic syndrome (INS) experienced changes in blood volume, or hypovolemia, during relapses, but we found no ...

Although blood-volume measurements were not done in this case, a review of the clinical course, together with the findings at autopsy, led us to believe that hypovolemia had been present and was a ...

This may be due to either a loss of both salt and water or a decrease in blood volume. Hypovolemia refers to the loss of extracellular fluid and should not be confused with dehydration.