pediatric renal biopsies in india: a single-centre experience of six years

Pediatric Renal Biopsies in India: A Single-Centre Experience of Six Years

BACKGROUND Renal biopsy is a well-established diagnostic modality for the assessment of kidney diseases in children. It can provide diagnostic precision and prognostic value and guide in therapeutic options for many renal diseases. OBJECTIVES This report describes the indication, histopathological patterns, and epidemiology of renal diseases in children in India. PATIENTS AND METHODS This i...

Paediatric renal biopsies in East Bohemia. single centre experience in the years 1997-2008.

This report analyses data on 177 renal biopsies (RB) performed in 174 children in the East Bohemian region throughout 1997-2008. The primary aim was to evaluate the diagnostic benefit of the procedure, the secondary aim was to assess the safety of RB and prevalence of clinical complications. The patients' mean age at the time of RB was 12.77 +/- 4.17 years; range 1 to 19 years; male to female r...

Pediatric renal transplantation: a single center experience over 14 years.

Between 1989 and 2003, 100 transplants were performed in 96 patients at the pediatric nephrology unit of the Calvo Mackenna Children's Hospital. Mean age 10.9 +/- 3.9 yr (1-17.6), 30% from LD. Donors were younger than 5 yr in five patients and all recipients received an 'en bloc' graft. Original disease was hypo/dysplasia 27%, reflux nephropathy 22 and 17% chronic glomerulonephritis. The immuno...

Healthcare Resource Management and Pandemic Preparedness for COVID-19: A Single Centre Experience From Jodhpur, India

Management of Perinatal Testicular Torsion: A Single Centre Experience

Perinatal testicular torsion (PTT) is a rare entity. The management of PTT is controversial, due to the low viability of the testis and the possibility of bilateral torsion. This is a review of our experience with six cases of PTT, highlighting diagnostic and therapeutic difficulties of this condition.

Experience with pediatric sarcoidosis at a centre in Mumbai, India

Methods Retrospective chart review of the demographic, clinical, diagnostic and genetic characteristics were studied. Results Over seven years, 12 of 1214 new cases seen in the Pediatric Rheumatology Clinic (1%) (M: F = 1:1), were diagnosed as Sarcoidosis. 11/12(91.7%) had an onset ≤4 years of age, 8/12(67%) maintained a cumulative followup of 33.7 years ( range 1-9 years). 7/12(58.3%) had rece...