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This article describes the foundation of ‘Pediatric Nephrology’ in Turkey including the fi rst steps in the international arena, the achievements in institutionalisation of services and training of pediatricians, a...

Materias / palabras clave: Medicine: Pediatrics; Medicine: Internal medicine: Specialties of internal medicine: Diseases of the genitourinary system. Urology

Biphosphonates (BP), synthetic analogues of inorganic pyrophosphate, potently inhibit skeletal resorption by suppressing the recruitment and activity of osteoclasts and shortening their life span and decreasing bone loss...

Materias / palabras clave: pediatric, nephrology, dialysis, kidney transplantation, acid-base disturbances; Medicine: Pediatrics; Medicine: Internal medicine: Specialties of internal medicine: Diseases of the genitourinary system. Urology

OBJECTIVE: Therapeutic plasma exchange (TPE) has been used in many diseases as primary or adjunctive therapy. We present our TPE experience in a pediatric nephrology practice setting. MATERIAL and METHODS: We retrospe...

PURPOSE: The aim of this study was to evaluate the rate of patency of A-V fistulas created by a single surgeon with microsurgery in childhood hemodialysis patients. MATERIAL and METHODS: The age, gender, complications ...

Materias / palabras clave: Medicine: Internal medicine; Medicine: Pediatrics

In spite of the recent advances peritonitis and catheter related infections are still the most common and serious complications of continuous ambulatory peritoneal dialysis (CAPD). The study included 54 children who unde...

Home hemodialysis (HD) has been supported by health authorities in many countries due to its nature of providing more freedom to the patients and the possibility to individualize the treatment. The treatment method is no...

This study was designed to evaluate the effects of CAPD and/or uremia on carbohydrate (ch) and lipid metabolism in pediatric chronic renal failure (predialysis (PD) and CAPD) patients, compared to an age-matched controls...

Objective: This study aimed to assess the histopathological diagnosis of pediatric renal biopsies performed at the tertiary referral center in the city and to compare the ultrasound (USG) -guided biopsy and percutaneous ...

OBJECTIVE: Acute renal failure is a life-threatening event in critically ill children. The dialysis modality depends on the clinical status of the patient and technical opportunities. We aimed to assess the renal replace...

Atypical hemolytic uremic syndrome (HUS) is a rare disease in childhood. The morbidity and mortality of this disease is found high. In this report, a 13 years old boy who had five times of HUS attacks was presented. The ...

Therapy of the anemia is a serious problem in patients with chronic renal failure. Several reports on adult patients have shown that supplementation with Lcarnitine can decrease the requirement for rhEPO. We investigated...

Primary hyperoxaluria is a rarely encountered disease characterised by recurrent urolithiasis, nephrocalcinosis, and oxalate deposition in almost all tissues, generally inherited in autosomal recessive fashion and the im...

Plasma carnitine levels and the effect of oral Lcarnitine supplementation on trigliceride and free faty acid levels were investigated in twenty uremic children on peritoneal dialysis. No difference was found between p...

Posterior reversible encephalopathy syndrome (PRES) is a clinicoradiological entity characterized by headache, altered mental state, seizure, visual disturbance and characteristic magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) finding...

Materias / palabras clave: Medicine: Internal medicine; Medicine: Pediatrics

Materias / palabras clave: Medicine: Pediatrics; Medicine: Internal medicine

OBJECTIVE: Chronic kidney disease (CKD) is an important problem in children worldwide. Clinical outcomes of CKD could be improved with early referral. In this study, we aimed to emphasize changing clinical and laboratory...

Chronic renal failure (CRF) is defined as a serum creatinine above 1mg/dl in the 1st year of life, which corresponds to creatinine clearances below 30ml/min per 1.73m². CRF is rarely seen in the newborn period. Acco...

Objective: Renal cystic diseases consist of a broad spectrum of hereditary or acquired conditions that may lead to end stage renal disease. We aimed to evaluate our patients diagnosed as renal cystic disease in terms of ...

Objective: Renal biopsy plays a crucial role in the diagnosis and treatment of renal diseases. The aim of the present study was to review the reasons leading to biopsy and the pathological diagnoses and to investigate th...

Condutivity is a non-linear function of electrolyte concentrations in fluids and may be used as an indirect method To determine the feasibility of urine conductivity measurement, which does not reguire expensive machin...