Clinical Profile and Renal Ultrasound Characteristics of Children With Nutcracker Syndrome in Turkey.

Objective: We aimed to evaluate the clinical profile and radiological findings of children with nutcracker syndrome (NCS) and to assess the association between the parameters.

Methods: A retrospective analysis of the clinical, laboratory and radiological parameters of children diagnosed with NCS between January, 2011 and October, 2017 was done.

Results: Of a total of 29 patients [19 girls, 65.

How important urolithiasis is under 2 years of age?

Urolithiasis (UL) is a common health problem in the world and the observed incidence of this disease is increasing in the infantile period. The study included cases of UL diagnosed before the age of two who had a comprehensive analysis for possible etiologic variables and were followed for a minimum of 6 months. Of the 60 patients included in the study, 37 were male, and the male/female ratio was 1.

Severity of self-reported depressive symptomatology and relevant factors in children with primary monosymptomatic nocturnal enuresis and their mothers.

Background: Nocturnal enuresis (NE) may negatively affect social and emotional life as well as mood in both children and their mothers. The aim of this study is to evaluate severity of self-reported depressive symptomatology and determine the relevant factors in children with primary monosymptomatic nocturnal enuresis (MNE) and their mothers by using depression inventories.

Methods: Children Depression Inventory (CDI) for children and Beck Depression Inventory (BDI) for mothers were administered to the study group.

Bismuth intoxication resulting in acute kidney injury in a pregnant adolescent girl.

Çelebi-Tayfur A, Yaradılmış RM, Ulus F, Çaltık-Yılmaz A, Özayar E, Koşar B, Büyükkaragöz B, Horasanlı E. Bismuth intoxication resulting in acute kidney injury in a pregnant adolescent girl. Turk J Pediatr 2019; 61: 292-296.

Posterior Segment Ocular Parameters in Children with Familial Mediterranean Fever.

: To measure and compare posterior ocular layers in remission period in children with familial Mediterranean fever (FMF).: A randomly selected eye and fellow eye of 20 FMF patients and 20 control eyes were evaluated. The average age of patients and control subjects were 12.

A Novel Mutation in the Gene Causing Congenital Nephrogenic Diabetes Insipidus.

Objective: Congenital nephrogenic diabetes insipidus (CNDI) is a rare inherited disorder characterized by a renal insensitivity to arginine vasopressin (AVP). In the majority of the cases, CNDI is caused by mutations in the arginine vasopressin receptor 2 () gene. Our objective is to report a novel mutation in the gene causing CNDI in a 6-year-old boy, presenting with growth failure and dull normal cognitive functions.

An adolescent boy progressing insidiously to end-stage renal disease: Answers.

Hinman syndrome was a non-neurogenic neurogenic bladder and the most severe form of dysfunctional voiding disorder. The bladder-sphincter discoordination causes damage to the bladder and upper urinary tract if it is not diagnosed early and treated adequately. This case emphasizes the following important message: nighttime wetting is not a benign condition in every child.

An adolescent boy progressing insidiously to end-stage renal disease: Questions.

Hinman syndrome (HS), or non-neurogenic neurogenic bladder, is a voiding dysfunction of the bladder of neuropsychological origin that is characterized by functional bladder outlet obstruction in the absence of neurologic deficits. The bladder-sphincter discoordination causes damage to the bladder and upper urinary tract if it is not timely diagnosed and adequately treated. This case emphasizes the following important message; nighttime wetting is not a benign condition in every child.

Causative pathogens and antibiotic resistance in children hospitalized for urinary tract infection.

Background: Urinary tract infections (UTI) are one of the most common bacterial infections in children and a major cause of hospitalization. In this study we investigated the clinical characteristics, causative uropathogens; their antibiotic susceptibility and resistance patterns, treatment modalities and efficacy in children hospitalized for UTI in a tertiary care setting.

Methods: Patients hospitalized for an upper UTI between March 2009 and July 2014 were enrolled.

Bisphosphonates in juvenile dermatomyositis with dystrophic calcinosis.

Objectives: Our primary objective was to retrospectively analyze whether bisphosphonates initiated in combination with immunosuppressive drugs and/or intravenous immunoglobulin (IVIG) resulted in a radiological and clinical improvement of dystrophic calcinosis in six female juvenile dermatomyositis (JDM) patients.

Methods: Medical records of the patients were reviewed. All six patients met the Bohan and Peter diagnostic criteria for JDM.

Midstream clean-catch urine collection in newborns: a randomized controlled study.

Unlabelled: We aimed to evaluate a recently defined technique based on bladder stimulation and paravertebral lumbar massage maneuvers in collecting a midstream clean-catch urine sample in newborns. A total of 127 term newborns were randomly assigned either to the experimental group or the control group. Twenty-five minutes after feeding, the genital and perineal areas of the babies were cleaned.

Selective proximal renal tubular involvement and dyslipidemia in two cousins with oculocerebrorenal syndrome of Lowe.

Oculocerebrorenal syndrome of Lowe (OCRL) is a rare, X-linked disorder characterized by congenital cataracts, neonatal or infantile hypotonia, seizures, cognitive impairment, and renal tubular dysfunction. In this article, we report two maternal cousins with OCRL with a hemizygous p.Ala788Asp mutation in exon 22 of the OCRL gene.

Different presentations in patients with tumor necrosis factor receptor-associated periodic syndrome mutations: report of two cases.

Tumor necrosis factor receptor-associated periodic syndrome (TRAPS) is an autosomal dominant autoinflammatory disorder caused by mutations in the TNFRSF1A gene encoding the 55-kDa receptor for tumor necrosis factor (TNF)-α. It is characterized by recurrent prolonged episodes of fever accompanied by abdominal pain, pleuritis, migratory skin rashes, fasciitis, headache, conjunctivitis, and periorbital edema. We report two children, one with a severe mutation in the TNFRSF1A gene causing the typical phenotype.

Conus medullaris syndrome and acute colonic pseudoobstruction in a child with acute lymphoblastic leukemia.

A 5(3/12)-year-old boy with Philadelphia chromosome (+) pre-B acute lymphoblastic leukemia (ALL) without extramedullary involvement did not achieve remission after induction therapy. His family stopped therapy, but he was readmitted eight months later due to pyoderma, pneumonia and active leukemia with leukocytosis. During cytoreductive and antibiotic therapy, he developed progressive abdominal distension, pain, globe vesicale, tachypnea, and respiratory alkalosis.

Delayed diagnosis of acute leukemia in a patient with bone pain and fracture.

In childhood acute lymphoblastic leukemia (ALL), non-hematological manifestations involving the musculoskeletal system can also be encountered. These manifestations may cause a delay in the diagnosis of leukemia. The presented case in this report is a six-year-old boy who developed bone pain and long bone fracture and was diagnosed as ALL after a considerable delay.