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Wang MK, Gaither T, Phelps A, Cohen R, Baskin L. The Incidence and Durability of Compensatory Hypertrophy in Pediatric Patients with Solitary Kidneys. Urology 2019; 129:188-193. [PMID: 30986483 DOI: 10.1016/j.urology.2019.04.003] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/23/2019] [Revised: 03/04/2019] [Accepted: 04/01/2019] [Indexed: 12/21/2022]
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OBJECTIVE To evaluate the incidence and durability of compensatory hypertrophy with solitary kidneys in the setting of those with multicystic dysplastic kidney (MCDK) or Wilms tumor (WT) status postnephrectomy. PATIENTS AND METHODS We conducted a retrospective cohort study of patients with MCDK and WT. MCDK patients were verified by sonographic findings prenatally. WT patients entered our study at time of nephrectomy. We compared the natural history of hypertrophy between the 2 cohorts via renal length measurement. We performed linear regression to predict creatinine clearance from renal length after adjusting for age and cohort status (MCDK versus WT). RESULTS Fifty-two patients (56%) were diagnosed with WT, and 71 patients (44%) with MCDK patients met study criteria with a median age of postnatal ultrasound at 1.6 months (interquartile range 0.5-3.6). The median (IQR) follow-up time was 7.5 years. At the time of nephrectomy, 25/52 (48%) of Wilms patients had contralateral hypertrophy, while at diagnosis 22/71 (31%) of MCDK patients had contralateral hypertrophy, P = .03. Contralateral hypertrophy was a consistent finding throughout follow-up. As renal length increases by 1 cm, glomerular filtration rate increased by 7.8 mL/min/m2 (95% confidence interval 1.8-13.8, P = .01). CONCLUSION Contralateral hypertrophy appears to be a compensatory mechanism for unilateral kidney pathology as demonstrated by MCDK and WT patients. Hypertrophy often occurs at the time of diagnosis and appears to be a permanent finding as children reach their teenage years. Additionally, in nonhydronephrotic kidneys, increases in renal length correlate with improvement in glomerular filtration rate. Overall, the majority of children with solitary kidneys demonstrate compensatory hypertrophy.
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- Mary Katie Wang
- UCSF Benioff Children's Hospital, Department of Urology, Division of Pediatric Urology, San Francisco, CA
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- UCSF Benioff Children's Hospital, Department of Urology, Division of Pediatric Urology, San Francisco, CA
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- UCSF Benioff Children's Hospital, Department of Radiology and Biomedical Imaging, San Francisco, CA
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- UCSF Benioff Children's Hospital Oakland, Department of Radiology, Oakland, CA
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- UCSF Benioff Children's Hospital, Department of Urology, Division of Pediatric Urology, San Francisco, CA.
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Olandoski KP, Koch V, Trigo-Rocha FE. Renal function in children with congenital neurogenic bladder. Clinics (Sao Paulo) 2011; 66:189-95. [PMID: 21484032 PMCID: PMC3059879 DOI: 10.1590/s1807-59322011000200002] [Citation(s) in RCA: 18] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/09/2010] [Accepted: 10/26/2010] [Indexed: 11/22/2022] Open
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AIMS Preservation of renal function in children with congenital neurogenic bladder is an important goal of treatment for the disease. This study analyzed the evolution of renal function in patients with congenital neurogenic bladder. METHODS We reviewed the records of 58 pediatric patients with respect to the following attributes: gender, age, etiology of neurogenic bladder, reason for referral, medical/surgical management, episodes of treated urinary tract infections, urodynamics, DMSA scintigraphy, weight, height, blood pressure, glomerular filtration rate, microalbuminuria and metabolic acidosis. Statistical analysis was performed, adopting the 5% significance level. RESULTS The mean age at presentation was 4.2 ± 3.5 years. Myelomeningocele was the most frequent etiology (71.4%). Recurrent urinary tract infection was the reason for referral in 82.8% of the patients. Recurrent urinary tract infections were diagnosed in 84.5% of the patients initially; 83.7% of those patients experienced improvement during follow-up. The initial mean glomerular filtration rate was 146.7 ± 70.1 mL/1.73 m²/min, and the final mean was 193.6 ± 93.6 mL/1.73 m²/min, p = 0.0004. Microalbuminuria was diagnosed in 54.1% of the patients initially and in 69% in the final evaluation. Metabolic acidosis was present in 19% of the patients initially and in 32.8% in the final assessment. CONCLUSIONS Patient referral to a pediatric nephrologist was late. A reduction in the number of urinary tract infections was observed with adequate treatment, but microalbuminuria and metabolic acidosis occurred frequently despite adequate management.
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- Karen Previdi Olandoski
- Instituto da Criança, Hospital das Clinicas, Faculdade de Medicina, Universidade de São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil.
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Lu W, Quintero-Rivera F, Fan Y, Alkuraya FS, Donovan DJ, Xi Q, Turbe-Doan A, Li QG, Campbell CG, Shanske AL, Sherr EH, Ahmad A, Peters R, Rilliet B, Parvex P, Bassuk AG, Harris DJ, Ferguson H, Kelly C, Walsh CA, Gronostajski RM, Devriendt K, Higgins A, Ligon AH, Quade BJ, Morton CC, Gusella JF, Maas RL. NFIA haploinsufficiency is associated with a CNS malformation syndrome and urinary tract defects. PLoS Genet 2007; 3:e80. [PMID: 17530927 PMCID: PMC1877820 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pgen.0030080] [Citation(s) in RCA: 94] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/08/2006] [Accepted: 04/05/2007] [Indexed: 11/23/2022] Open
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Complex central nervous system (CNS) malformations frequently coexist with other developmental abnormalities, but whether the associated defects share a common genetic basis is often unclear. We describe five individuals who share phenotypically related CNS malformations and in some cases urinary tract defects, and also haploinsufficiency for the NFIA transcription factor gene due to chromosomal translocation or deletion. Two individuals have balanced translocations that disrupt NFIA. A third individual and two half-siblings in an unrelated family have interstitial microdeletions that include NFIA. All five individuals exhibit similar CNS malformations consisting of a thin, hypoplastic, or absent corpus callosum, and hydrocephalus or ventriculomegaly. The majority of these individuals also exhibit Chiari type I malformation, tethered spinal cord, and urinary tract defects that include vesicoureteral reflux. Other genes are also broken or deleted in all five individuals, and may contribute to the phenotype. However, the only common genetic defect is NFIA haploinsufficiency. In addition, previous analyses of Nfia−/− knockout mice indicate that Nfia deficiency also results in hydrocephalus and agenesis of the corpus callosum. Further investigation of the mouse Nfia+/− and Nfia−/− phenotypes now reveals that, at reduced penetrance, Nfia is also required in a dosage-sensitive manner for ureteral and renal development. Nfia is expressed in the developing ureter and metanephric mesenchyme, and Nfia+/− and Nfia−/− mice exhibit abnormalities of the ureteropelvic and ureterovesical junctions, as well as bifid and megaureter. Collectively, the mouse Nfia mutant phenotype and the common features among these five human cases indicate that NFIA haploinsufficiency contributes to a novel human CNS malformation syndrome that can also include ureteral and renal defects. Central nervous system (CNS) and urinary tract abnormalities are common human malformations, but their variability and genetic complexity make it difficult to identify the responsible genes. Analysis of human chromosomal abnormalities associated with such disorders offers one approach to this problem. In five individuals described herein, a novel human syndrome that involves both CNS and urinary tract defects is associated with chromosomal disruption or deletion of NFIA, encoding a member of the Nuclear Factor I (NFI) family of transcription factors. This syndrome includes brain abnormalities (abnormal corpus callosum, hydrocephalus, ventriculomegaly, and Chiari type I malformation), spinal abnormalities (tethered spinal cord), and urinary tract abnormalities (vesicoureteral reflux). Nfia disruption in mice was already known to cause hydrocephalus and abnormal corpus callosum, and is now shown to exhibit renal defects and disturbed ureteral development. Other genes besides NFIA are also disrupted or deleted and may contribute to the observed phenotype. However, loss of one copy of NFIA is the only genetic defect common to all five patients. The authors thus provide evidence that genetic loss of NFIA contributes to a distinct CNS malformation syndrome with urinary tract defects of variable penetrance.
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- Weining Lu
- Genetics Division, Brigham and Women's Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
- Renal Section, Boston University Medical Center, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
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- Center for Human Genetic Research, Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
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- Genetics Division, Brigham and Women's Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
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- Genetics Division, Brigham and Women's Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
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- Department of Pathology, Brigham and Women's Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
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- Genetics Division, Brigham and Women's Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
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- Genetics Division, Brigham and Women's Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
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- Renal Section, Boston University Medical Center, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
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- Division of Neurology, Children's Hospital of Western Ontario, London, Ontario, Canada
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- Children's Hospital at Montefiore, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Bronx, New York, United States of America
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- Department of Neurology, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, California, United States of America
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- Division of Genetic and Metabolic Disorders, Department of Pediatrics, Wayne State University, Detroit, Michigan, United States of America
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- Genetics Division, Brigham and Women's Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
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- Department of Neurosurgery, University Hospital, Geneva, Switzerland
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- Department of Nephrology, University Hospital, Geneva, Switzerland
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- Departments of Pediatrics and Neurology, Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine, Chicago, Illinois, United States of America
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- Genetics Division, Children's Hospital Boston and Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
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- Department of Obstetrics, Gynecology and Reproductive Biology, Brigham and Women's Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
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- Department of Obstetrics, Gynecology and Reproductive Biology, Brigham and Women's Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
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- Genetics Division, Children's Hospital Boston and Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
- Department of Neurology, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center and Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
- Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center and Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
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- Department of Biochemistry, State University of New York at Buffalo, Buffalo, New York, United States of America
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- Department of Pathology, Brigham and Women's Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
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- Department of Pathology, Brigham and Women's Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
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- Department of Pathology, Brigham and Women's Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
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- Department of Pathology, Brigham and Women's Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
- Department of Obstetrics, Gynecology and Reproductive Biology, Brigham and Women's Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
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- Center for Human Genetic Research, Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
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- Genetics Division, Brigham and Women's Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
- * To whom correspondence should be addressed. E-mail:
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Abrahamsson K, Jodal U, Stokland E, Nordvall A, Sillén U. Ultrasonography to visualize the upper urinary tract in children with meningomyelocele. BJU Int 2006; 98:858-60. [PMID: 16978285 DOI: 10.1111/j.1464-410x.2006.06322.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/29/2022]
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OBJECTIVE To evaluate the frequency of difficulties when using ultrasonography (US, commonly used to visualize the upper urinary tract) to evaluate renal length and dilatation in children and adolescents with meningomyelocele (MMC), who have excessive obesity or a distorted spine. PATIENTS AND METHODS The records of all children with MMC investigated during 1996-2002 were assessed retrospectively and the last investigation used for analysis. In addition to the US results, the body mass index (BMI) and angulation of the spine were recorded. RESULTS Of the 160 children investigated, US was not evaluable in 46 (29%), i.e. in 35 (22%) for renal length, in one (1%) for dilatation and in 10 (6%) for both. In 99 patients with a straight spine and mild to moderate angulation, renal length was not measurable in 14 (14%), while dilatation was not evaluable in two (2%). In 61 patients with a severely angled spine, the corresponding values were 31 (51%) and nine (15%), respectively. In eight patients with a BMI of >or= 27 kg/m2 and a straight spine, four of the investigations were not completely evaluable, while six were not in the eight patients with both a BMI of >or= 27 kg/m2 and severe angulation. CONCLUSION Both severe spinal angulation and a BMI of >or= 27 kg/m2 significantly reduced the possibility of evaluating the urinary tract by US. However, in an unselected group of children with MMC, dilatation could be evaluated in >90% and renal length in approximately 70%.
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- Kate Abrahamsson
- The Paediatric Uro-Nephrologic Centre, The Queen Silvia Children's Hospital, Göteborg University, Göteborg, Sweden.
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