Prevalence of arterial hypertension in pediatric hospitalized patients.

Objective: To establish the prevalence of arterial hypertension in pediatric patients hospitalized in a tertiary hospital center in Medellin, Colombia for 6 years.

Methods: A descriptive cross-sectional study was carried out that reviewed retrospective information obtained from the clinical records of patients under 18 years of age hospitalized at the Pablo Tobón Uribe Hospital in Medellín.

Results: From a total of 382 pediatric patients hospitalized in the studied period, a prevalence of hypertension of 30.

[Frequency of arterial hypertension, diabetes and dyslipidemia in children after kidney transplants].

Background: Pediatric kidney transplant patients have an increased risk of developing arterial hypertension, dyslipidemia, carbohydrate intolerance and diabetes mellitus, risk factors associated with increased cardiovascular morbidity and mortality.

Objective: This study evaluates the frequency of arterial hypertension, dyslipidemia and alteration in carbohydrate metabolism in a cohort of pediatric kidney transplant patients during 2006-2016 at the Pablo Tobon Uribe Hospital, in Colombia.

Material And Methods: Retrospective descriptive study in which descriptive statistics were used.

Tuberculosis in renal transplant patients: the experience of a single center in Medellín-Colombia, 2005-2013.

Introduction: Tuberculosis is a common opportunistic infection in renal transplant patients.

Objective: To obtain a clinical and laboratory description of transplant patients diagnosed with tuberculosis and their response to treatment during a period ranging from 2005 to 2013 at the Pablo Tobón Uribe Hospital.

Methods: Retrospective and descriptive study.

Resistance profile for pathogens causing urinary tract infection in a pediatric population, and antibiotic treatment response at a university hospital, 2010-2011.

Introduction: Urinary tract infection (UTI) is one of the most common bacterial infections in childhood and causes acute and chronic morbidity and long-term hypertension and chronic kidney disease.

Objectives: To describe the demographic characteristics, infectious agents, patterns of antibiotic resistance, etiologic agent and profile of susceptibility and response to empirical treatment of UTI in a pediatric population.

Methods: This is a descriptive, retrospective study.

Immunosupressive therapy in children with steroid-resistant nephrotic syndrome: single center experience.

Introduction: [corrected] Nephrotic syndrome is one of the most frequent glomerular diseases among children, and steroid therapy remains as the treatment choice. In spite of this, 10 to 15% of the patients are steroidresistant, and the best therapy for such cases has never been defined. Mycophenolate acid (MA) is one of the treatments used in such situations.

IgM nephropathy in children: clinicopathologic analysis.

Introduction: IgM nephropathy (IgMN) is a glomerulonephritis characterised by diffuse mesangial immunoglobulin M (IgM) deposits. It usually presents with nephrotic range proteinuria and, according to some previous work, it occurs most often in patients who are resistant to or dependent on steroid treatment.

Objective: To perform a clinical, histological and immunopathological description and assess the response to steroid treatment of paediatric patients diagnosed with nephrotic syndrome and diffuse mesangial IgM deposits.