[Acute renal failure in full term neonates with perinatal asphyxia. Prospective study of 87 cases].

Background: Renal involvement is frequent in neonates with perinatal asphyxia. It is correlated with the severity of neurological damage and seems to worsen the long-term neurological outcome.

Purpose: The aim of this study was to determine the incidence of renal failure after perinatal asphyxia, to precise the relationship between severity of cerebral damage and renal failure and to evaluate the place of renal damage in the short- and middle-term neurological outcome.

[Major neonatal aortic thrombosis: a case report].

Aortic thrombosis is a rare and severe condition in neonates which often is revealed by ischemia of lower limbs. We report a case of major aortic thrombosis revealed by renal failure, hematuria and dehydration in a 10-day-old girl. Clinical features consisted in hypertension at upper limbs without ischemic signs of the lower limbs.