Novel influenza (H1N1) infection in pediatric renal transplant recipients: a single center experience.

In 2009, novel influenza A H1N1 caused significant morbidity and mortality worldwide, particularly in children. Because they are immunocompromised, pediatric transplant recipients are presumed to be at high risk. This study assessed epidemiological characteristics, presenting symptoms, and clinical course among pediatric renal transplant recipients with confirmed H1N1 infection.

Stress-induced cardiovascular reactivity and atherogenesis in adolescents.

Objective: To examine the association between cardiovascular reactivity to a set of psychological stressors and carotid artery intima-media thickness, a marker of subclinical cardiovascular disease in healthy adolescents.

Methods: Participants were 25 boys and 23 girls age 14.2 ± 0.

Lithium-induced membranous glomerulonephropathy in a pediatric patient.

Lithium-induced glomerular toxicity is an infrequent occurrence in pediatric patients. We report a 13-year-old patient presenting with clinical and laboratory evidence of renal insufficiency after long-term lithium use. Biopsy revealed membranous glomerulonephropathy.