Solutions for peritoneal dialys ...
The purpose of this article is to provide recommendations on the choice of peritoneal dialysis (PD) fluids in children by the European Pediatric Dia ...
Medication beliefs and perceive ...
Understanding patient beliefs about medications and perceived barriers is important for optimal medical management. Differentiating adolescent views ...
The definition of daytime and n ...
To test if an arbitrary definition of day and night periods that differs to patient-reported awake and sleep periods leads to inaccuracies in interp ...
Efficacy of eculizumab in a pat ...
Atypical hemolytic uremic syndrome (aHUS) is a rare, chronic, life-threatening disease due to complement dysregulation. The use of early-onset plasm ...
Primary versus secondary hypert ...
Childhood hypertension has classically been recognized as a secondary disease. However, primary hypertension also occurs in children. The aim of thi ...
Clinical outcome and occurrence ...
Acute idiopathic tubulointerstitial nephritis (TIN) is considered a condition with a good long-term prognosis. However, there is evidence that some ...
Ibandronate affects bone growth ...
Bisphosphonates have been shown to attenuate ectopic calcification in experimental uremia. While they are known to reduce bone turnover, the effects ...
Defining the genetic blueprint ...
Thousands of genes show differential expression patterns during kidney development, suggesting that the genetic program driving this process is comp ...
Overexpression of p18INK4C in L ...
Studies have demonstrated that cyclin-dependent kinase inhibitors (CDKI) that inhibit cell-cycle progression have a protective effect against acute ...
No difference in meeting hemogl ...
Urologic disorders are the most common cause of chronic kidney disease in children. To determine whether children with urologic etiology of end-stag ...
Elevated FGF 23 and phosphorus ...
Increased mortality of adult chronic hemodialysis (HD) patients is associated with coronary calcifications (CC), increased serum phosphorus (P), use ...
Self-reported quality of life i ...
Chronic kidney disease (CKD) would be expected to impact upon the quality of life (QoL) of children and young people; therefore, it is important tha ...
Eculizumab induces long-term re ...
A 15-year-old male patient developed atypical hemolytic uremic syndrome (aHUS) at 16 months of age leading to end-stage renal disease. The family hi ...
Serum cystatin C for estimation ...
Residual renal function (RRF) is an important parameter in the management of patients on chronic dialysis. The aim of this cross-sectional study was ...
Behavioral disorders and low qu ...
Recent years has seen an increasing interest in the quality of life (QOL) of children with chronic kidney disease (CKD). The objective of this cross ...
Isoprostane levels in urine of ...
Patent ductus arteriosus (PDA) is the most common cardiovascular abnormality of the preterm infant usually treated with ibuprofen (IBU). PDA is stri ...
Nephron progenitors in the meta ...
The kidney is formed by a reciprocally inductive interaction between two precursor tissues, the metanephric mesenchyme and the ureteric bud. This in ...
Glomerular hyperfiltration and ...
Early manifestations of sickle nephropathy include glomerular hyperfiltration and proteinuria, typically microalbuminuria. Over time, a subset of pa ...
Serum uric acid is associated w ...
Serum uric acid (UA) is positively associated with hypertension (HTN). HTN is common in pediatric patients receiving hemodialysis (HD) and peritonea ...
Prepulse inhibition of the star ...
Children with enuresis can be classified into those who wet their beds only at night (monosymptomatic enuresis, mE), and those who additionally suff ...
Glomerular filtration rate and ...
Glomerular filtration rate (GFR) was evaluated in 32 Wilms’ tumour survivors (WTs) in a cross-sectional study using 99 Tc-diethylene triamine pentaa ...
Renal function in pediatric cys ...
With increasing life expectancy and the need for lung transplantation in the cystic fibrosis (CF) population, there are increasing reports of chroni ...
Hepatic and pulmonary nodular l ...
One of the major goals in investigating children with urinary tract infection (UTI) is to recognize patients at risk of further UTI-related problems. ...
Urinary transforming growth fac ...
Renal dysfunction affects 5–18% of patients with sickle cell disease (SCD). To date, no studies have described urinary levels of transforming growth ...
The relationship between argini ...
Post-operative hyponatremia is a common complication in children which results from hypotonic fluid administration in the presence of arginine vasop ...