Posterior Reversible Encephalopathy Syndrome Following Failure of Conservative Management in Renal Trauma: Case Report.

Blunt renal trauma is relatively common in children. Conservative management has become the mainstay of treatment. A 4-year-old boy presented following a fall onto his right abdomen resulting in renal trauma.

Autoimmune Voltage-Gated Potassium Channelopathy Presenting With Catecholamine Excess.

Background: Autoimmune voltage-gated potassium channelopathies have been associated with a range of neurological presenting symptoms, including central, peripheral, and autonomic dysfunction.

Patient Description: We describe a 12-year-old boy who presented with nine months of pain, anxiety, and 30-pound weight loss. He was admitted for failure to thrive, then noted to be persistently hypertensive and tachycardic.

Urine podocyte mRNAs, proteinuria, and progression in human glomerular diseases.

Model systems demonstrate that progression to ESRD is driven by progressive podocyte depletion (the podocyte depletion hypothesis) and can be noninvasively monitored through measurement of urine pellet podocyte mRNAs. To test these concepts in humans, we analyzed urine pellet mRNAs from 358 adult and pediatric kidney clinic patients and 291 controls (n=1143 samples). Compared with controls, urine podocyte mRNAs increased 79-fold (P<0.

Inpatient health care utilization by children and adolescents with systemic lupus erythematosus and kidney involvement.

Objective: To evaluate inpatient health care utilization for children with systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE) with and without kidney disease.

Methods: The Healthcare Cost and Utilization Project Kids' Inpatient Database for the years 2000, 2003, and 2006 was used for this analysis. SLE hospitalizations from the 2006 cohort were identified and classified as those with versus without kidney involvement by International Classification of Diseases, Ninth Revision, Clinical Modification codes.