Infective endocarditis in children. A seven-year experience.

Eighteen children with infective endocarditis were detected over seven years. Fever, gastrointestinal and chest symptoms were striking features. Anaemia, elevated leukocyte count and sedimentation rate were constant laboratory findings.

The kidney in hematologic disease. A review.

The kidney is involved in a variety of systemic diseases and conditions including collagen, endocrine, liver, infectious, neoplastic, and cardiac diseases, as well as pregnancy. Renal involvement in hematologic diseases has not been stressed. In this review we will summarize the role of coagulation in the pathophysiology of renal disease and present renal involvement in sickle cell anemia, hemolytic uremic syndrome, thrombotic thrombocytopenic purpura, leukemia, and other less common hematologic diseases.