Long-term outcome of pediatric kidney transplantation: A single-center experience from Greece.

Pediatric kidney Tx has critically altered the outcome in ESRD pediatric patients. The aims of this study were to determine long-term graft and patient survival in a homogeneous ethnic population. We reviewed the medical charts of pediatric kidney Tx performed between 1990 and 2012 in Greece.

Psychosocial and cognitive function in children with nephrotic syndrome: association with disease and treatment variables.

Background: To investigate possible differences in emotional/behavioral problems and cognitive function in children with nephrotic syndrome compared to healthy controls and to examine the effect of disease-specific and steroid treatment-specific characteristics on the abovementioned variables.

Methods: Forty-one patients with nephrotic syndrome (23 boys, age range: 4.4-15.

Atypical hemolytic-uremic syndrome (HUS) with recovery after a long-lasting anuria: a case report.

We report a case of a seven-year-old girl who suffered from atypical Hemolytic Uremic Syndrome (aHUS) complicated by septicaemia, central nervous system involvement, and cholangiitis. She remained anuric requiring treatment with peritoneal dialysis (PD) for a five-month period. In addition to conventional therapeutic measures including fresh frozen plasma (FFP) and blood cells transfusions she also underwent to plasma exchange (PE) treatment.

Membranous nephritis associated with acquired cytomegalovirus infection in a 19-month-old baby.

Membranous nephritis (MN) is a rare form of glomerulonephritis in childhood, with an incidence of 0.8 to 6.7% based on renal biopsy specimens.