Hemolytic uremic syndrome assoc ...
Sirs, During 2009, a pandemic influenza A H1N1 virus emerged end spread all over the world [1]. Renal involvement in influenza A virus infection is ...
Renal failure induced by Cortin ...
Sirs, We thank Dr Kirchmair and Dr Pِder for their comment [1]. An unfortunate error was made concerning the picture shown in our Clinical Quiz [2] ...
Suggested revision of the Natio ...
In 2007, the updated 4th report of the National High Blood Pressure Education Program was published [1] (http://www. nhlbi.nih.gov/health/prof/heart ...
Children with chronic kidney di ...
Dear Editor, In most developing countries, and in some developed countries such as the United States, the inability to access health care due to a ...
Development of uveitis during s ...
Sirs, We read with interest the article of Jahnukainen and colleagues [1] who presented 26 patients with tubulointerstitial nephritis. Twelve patie ...
Acetyl salicylic acid treatment ...
Antenatal Bartter syndrome is an autosomal recessive disorder caused by loss-of-function mutations in genes encoding for the renal outer medullary p ...
Xenopus pronephros development— ...
Kidney development is a multi-step process where undifferentiated mesenchyme is converted into a highly complex organ through several inductive even ...
A case of post-infectious glome ...
Sirs, It was fascinating to read the recent publication by Ghiggeri et al. [1] that haematuria can be a prodrome for H1N1 infection in children whi ...
Not ready for prime time: alisk ...
Sirs, In the past, children were often excluded from studies of new medications, resulting in insufficient efficacy and safety data [1]. While this ...
Exchange transfusion as rescue ...
Sirs, Acute renal failure (ARF) affects 8–24% of babies admitting to neonatal intensive care units [1]. Dialysis or hemofiltration is the treatment ...
Wnt signaling and renal medulla ...
The renal medulla, the inner compartment of the metanephric kidney, plays vital roles in the regulation of body water, electrolyte homeostasis, and ...
Acute glomerulonephritis and ac ...
Sirs, We read with great interest the letter by Jain et al. regarding a 14-year-old boy with postinfectious glomerulonephritis following infection ...
Ciliogenesis in normal human ki ...
Ciliogenesis in developing and post-natal human kidneys appears to influence cell proliferation and differentiation, apico–basal cell polarity, and ...
Vitamin D deficiency is associa ...
Vitamin D deficiency is common in adult renal transplant recipients, but data in children are scarce. Vitamin D is shown to have multiple effects on ...
Why is hypercalciuria absent at ...
We try to explain why hypercalciuria is absent at diagnosis in some children with an ATP6V1B1 mutation. A 5-month-old girl presented with distal ren ...
Posterior reversible encephalop ...
Posterior reversible encephalopathy syndrome (PRES) was originally used to describe a reversible, predominantly posterior leukoencephalopathy in pat ...
Neurological development in 21 ...
Few studies have focused on the neurodevelopment of infants on peritoneal dialysis (PD). Infants are the most demanding patient group on PD and thus ...
Postnatal trends in creatinemia ...
To document trends and covariates of creatinemia (Scr) in extremely low birth weight (ELBW, < 1,000 g) neonates, maternal characteristics [betametha ...
The impact of vesicoureteral re ...
Vesicoureteral reflux (VUR) is a heterogeneous disease and its management remains one of the most controversial topics in pediatrics. Management opt ...
Heart ventricular activation in ...
Children with chronic kidney disease (CKD) are affected by cardiovascular complications, including disturbances in the intraventricular conduction s ...
A patient with polyuria and hyd ...
The case demonstrates the importance of assessing NDI and hydronephrosis separately. Hydronephrosis is a recognised complication of primary NDI and ...
Rhabdomyolysis: pathogenesis of ...
Rhabdomyolysis refers to the breakdown of skeletal muscle due to either a physical, biological, or toxic injury that leads to leakage of muscle cont ...
Weight or body surface area dos ...
Although prednisone is the treatment of choice for nephrotic syndrome (NS) in childhood, the dosing regimen varies between 60 mg/m2/day, as recommen ...
Epidemiology of chronic kidney ...
In the past 30 years there have been major improvements in the care of children with chronic kidney disease (CKD). However, most of the available ep ...
The role of molecular genetics ...
Familial microscopic hematuria (MH) of glomerular origin represents a heterogeneous group of monogenic conditions involving several genes, some of w ...