[VESICOURETERAL REFLUX INTO SMALL KIDNEY DIAGNOSTIC AND THERAPEUTIC PARADIGM].

The causes of renal size reductionin children by 20 percent or more from the age norm include abnormalities of urodynamics of upper (UUT) and lower (LUT) urinary tract, combined with vesicoureteral reflux (VUR) and infra-vesical obstruction (IVO). Several issues regarding diagnosis and choice of treatment in children with small kidneys depending on the severity of functional abnormalities and the presence of comorbidities still remain controversial. 101 children with small kidneys accounting for 3.

[Vesicoureteral reflux in children with hypoplastic kidney].

Reconstructive plastic operations were conducted in 54 children aged 1 to 14 years. The children were followed up for 1 to 17 years. In 40 patients reflux into the hypoplastic kidney combined with anomaly or another disease of the contralateral kidney, in 10 patients--with infravesical obstruction.

[Transplacental measles immunity in infants in the 1st year of life].

A total of 187 parturients (66 with a history of measles and 121 immunized with live measles vaccine, or LMV, in childhood) and their 187 newborn infants, as well as 195 children aged up to 1 year, were examined. Antimeasles antibodies in blood sera were detected in the hemagglutination inhibition test. In all mothers with a history of measles and in their newborn infants antimeasles antibodies in different titers were detected.