Auditory function in pediatric idiopathic nephrotic syndrome: Correlations with disease severity and corticosteroid burden.

Subclinical cochlear dysfunction is present in a subset of children with idiopathic nephrotic syndrome and is undetectable by routine clinical examination.

The findings are consistent with shared renal-cochlear vulnerability and cumulative corticosteroid-associated cochlear toxicity.

Objective hearing screening should be integrated into standard follow-up protocols for pediatric nephrotic syndrome.