Publications by authors named "M Tsimaratos"
Background: There is a lack of information on the current healthcare systems for children with kidney diseases across Europe. The aim of this study was to explore the different national approaches to the organization and delivery of pediatric nephrology services within Europe.
Methods: In 2020, the European society for Paediatric Nephrology (ESPN) conducted a cross-sectional survey to identify the existing pediatric nephrology healthcare systems in 48 European countries covering a population of more than 200 million children.
Objective: The aim of this study was to describe the quality of life (QoL) of children with a chronic illness treated in a tertiary multidisciplinary pediatric department in comparison with the general population.
Study Design: A cross-sectional study was conducted in the tertiary multidisciplinary (nephrology, hepatogastroenterology, endocrinology, diabetology, transplantation) pediatric department of Timone Hospital in Marseille, France. Patients 8-17 years of age with a chronic disease were included during regular follow-up appointments.
Article Synopsis
- The study investigates the link between social deprivation and the incidence of kidney replacement therapy (KRT) among children and young adults in France, showing a correlation between higher social deprivation and increased KRT rates.
- Analyzed data from 2010 to 2015, including 672 children who started KRT, revealing that 38.8% were from the most deprived areas, with higher incidence rates as deprivation increased.
- Results indicate that social health inequalities emerge even at the initiation of KRT, emphasizing the importance of addressing these inequalities in chronic kidney disease management.
Introduction: Unlike idiopathic nephrotic syndrome (NS), hereditary podocytopathies are not expected to recur after kidney transplantation. However, some reports of posttransplant recurrence of NS in patients carrying variants in the gene have been described, notably with the p.Arg138Gln variant, which is more prevalent in Europe.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFWe present an overview of kidney transplantation activity in the Maghreb countries, based on data from the 9th Colloque France-Maghreb (Paris, May 20 and 21, 2022). For Algeria, Morocco and Tunisia, the incidence of end stage renal failure is respectively 120, 130 and 130 per million inhabitants, its prevalence 626, 900 and 833 per million inhabitants and the part of patients with a functional graft of 10.3, 1.
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