Clinical and laboratory feature ...
OCRL mutations, which are a hallmark of Lowe syndrome, have recently been found in patients with isolated renal phenotype (Dent-2 disease). In this ...
Age-related stature and linear ...
Children with X-linked hypophosphatemic rickets (XLH) are prone to severe stunting. A multicenter mixed-longitudinal study was conducted to assess a ...
Semaphorins in kidney developme ...
Semaphorins are guidance proteins that play important roles in organogenesis and disease. Expression of class 3 semaphorins and their receptors is r ...
The impact of pediatric nephrot ...
The objective of our study was to assess the psychologic and economic effects of pediatric nephrotic syndrome (NS) on caregivers. Caregivers of 50 c ...
An unusual case of hyperkalaemi ...
PHA type II is a rare but interesting disorder because of the unusual association of hypertension with hyperkalemia which appears to indicate a disa ...
Hypochloremic metabolic alkalos ...
CLD is a rare autosomal recessive disease occurring mainly in people in Arabian countries, Finland, and Poland [1–3]. It is characterized by unremit ...
Renal manifestations of patient ...
MYH9-related disorders are a group of autosomal, dominantly inherited disorders caused by mutations of the MYH9 gene, which encodes the non-muscle m ...
Pathogenesis, diagnosis and man ...
Hyperkalemia is a potentially life-threatening condition in which serum potassium exceeds 5.5 mmol/l. It can be caused by reduced renal excretion, e ...
Imaging of the urinary tract: t ...
Computed tomography (CT) and magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) are increasingly valuable tools for assessing the urinary tract in adults and children ...
Defining and redefining the nep ...
It has long been appreciated that the mammalian kidney arises via reciprocal interactions between an epithelial ureteric epithelium and the surround ...
A 10-year-old boy with dark uri ...
Mitochondrial fatty acid â-oxidation (FAO) is essential for energy homeostasis in skeletal muscle under conditions that require simultaneous glucose ...
Fetal environment, epigenetics, ...
The notion that some adult diseases may have their origins in utero has recently captured scientists’ attention. Some of these effects persist acros ...
Abdominal pain in a female adol ...
Differential diagnosis of abdominal pain in a female teenager with autosomal dominant polycystic kidney disease (ADPKD) and insulin-dependent diabet ...
Microvascular disease in childr ...
The incidence of type 1 diabetes (T1D) is increasing worldwide and is associated with a significant burden, mainly related to the development of vas ...
aHUS caused by complement dysre ...
Atypical hemolytic uremic syndrome (aHUS) is a heterogeneous disease that is caused by defective complement regulation in over 50% of cases. Mutatio ...
Patterning and early cell linea ...
Specification of the intermediate mesoderm and the epithelial derivatives that will make the mammalian kidney depends on the concerted action of man ...
TRPC channel modulation in podo ...
Glomerular kidney disease is a major healthcare burden and considered to represent a sum of disorders that evade a refined and effective treatment. ...
New therapies in steroid-sensit ...
Although many children with idiopathic nephrotic syndrome (INS) respond initially to steroid therapy, repeated courses for patients with relapses of ...
Dent’s disease: clinical featur ...
Dent’s disease is an X-linked recessive renal tubulopathy characterized by low-molecular-weight proteinuria (LMWP), hypercalciuria, nephrocalcinosis ...
Abdominal pain in a female adol ...
A 16-year-old white female presented to the emergency department (ED) with complaints of multiple episodes of vomiting, colicky left flank, and lowe ...
Genetics of congenital anomalie ...
Congenital anomalies of the kidney and urinary tract (CAKUT) occur in 1 in 500 births and are a major cause of morbidity in children. Notably, CAKUT ...
Cystinosis: practical tools for ...
Cystinosis is the major cause of inherited Fanconi syndrome, and should be suspected in young children with failure to thrive and signs of renal pro ...
Biomarkers of acute kidney inju ...
Acute kidney injury (AKI) in children is associated with increased mortality and prolonged length of hospital stay and may also be associated with l ...
Renal amyloidosis in children
Renal amyloidosis is a detrimental disease caused by the deposition of amyloid fibrils. A child with renal amyloidosis may present with proteinuria ...
Ciliopathies: an expanding dise ...
Ciliopathies comprise a group of disorders associated with genetic mutations encoding defective proteins, which result in either abnormal formation ...