National survey of prevention and management of CMV infection in pediatric kidney transplantation in comparison to clinical practice guidelines.

Background: Cytomegalovirus (CMV) is one of the most frequent opportunistic infections in kidney transplant (KT) recipients and is a risk factor for patient and graft survival after KT. Center-to-center variation, optimal prevention and treatment strategies in pediatric KT are currently unknown. This survey aimed to assess current CMV prevention and treatment strategies used among French pediatric KT centers.

[Epidemiology of pediatric chronic kidney disease].

Major advances have been made in the management of children with chronic kidney disease over the past 30 years. However, existing epidemiology data are primarily from kidney replacement therapy registries, and information available at earlier stages of chronic kidney disease is limited. The incidence and prevalence of chronic kidney disease stages 2 to 5 remain poorly understood.

Preemptive Kidney Transplantation Is Associated With Transplantation Outcomes in Children: Results From the French Kidney Replacement Therapy Registry.

Background: Kidney transplantation (KT) is the optimal treatment for children with end-stage kidney disease. The aim of this study was to evaluate the impact of preemptive kidney transplantation (PKT) and of pretransplant dialysis duration on graft survival among French pediatric kidney transplant recipients.

Methods: We analyzed all first pediatric kidney-only transplantations performed in France between 1993 and 2012.

Hemolytic uremic syndrome associated with Bordetella pertussis infection in a 2-month-old infant carrying a pathogenic variant in complement factor H.

Background: Hemolytic uremic syndrome (HUS) has been associated with a number of infectious agents. We report here the case of an infant with severe Bordetella pertussis infection who developed HUS.

Case Diagnosis/treatment: A 2-month-old preterm male was admitted for severe Bordetella pertussis infection.

Long-term outcome of diarrhea-associated hemolytic uremic syndrome is poorly related to markers of kidney injury at 1-year follow-up in a population-based cohort.

Background: Hemolytic uremic syndrome due to Shiga toxin-producing E. coli (STEC-HUS) is the main cause of acute kidney injury in young children. Most fully recover kidney function; however, some develop long-term sequelae.