The aim of treatment is to reduce renal scarring. Those children with grade II or worse should receive low dose prophylactic antibiotics (Nitrofurantoin, trimethoprim, cotrimoxazole, cefalexin in those with CRF). Hypertension should be managed with ACE inhibitor or ARBs. Other treatment modalities include surgery (endoscopic injection of collagen behind the intra-vesical ureter, ureteric re-implantation or lengthening of the submucosal ureteric tunnel) which has its protagonists.
Reflux nephropathy
Analgesic nephropathy
IgA nephropathy
Contrast-induced nephropathy
Diabetic nephropathy
Malarial nephropathy
Mesoamerican nephropathy
Shunt nephritis