Studies on preventive nephrology: systemic hypertension in the pediatric and adolescent population of Gassim, Saudi Arabia

Casual blood pressure was recorded for subjects of Faizia East Primary Health District during a cross-sectional population survey. Valid information was obtained from 5671 subjects, out of which 3299 [1561 males and 1738 females] were between the ages of three and 18, constituting therefore the padiatric/adolescent [P/A] sector of our study population. The prevalence of hypertension [HPN], defined as >/= 95th percentile for total HPN population [mild and severe] and >/= 99th percentile for severe, was calculated for the three-year age cohorts suggested by the Task Force on Blood Pressure Control in Children [1987]. The three subsets of HPN were derived from the suggested cut-off levels without any nodifications. Overall prevalence of HPN was, for the P/A, found to be 10.65% [351/3299]. Females in all the age cohorts were significantly more hypertensive than males, overall gender prevalence being 7.94% [124/1561] for males against 13.06% [227/1738] for females: P=0.0000019; CI: 0.45

Nefroma multiquístico en una adulta: informe de caso / Multicystic nephroma in an adult woman: report of a case

Se presentan las características clínicas y morfológicas de un nefroma multiquístico del riñon izquierdo en una paciente femenina de 35 años de edad, quien consultó por una masa situada en el hipocondrio izquierdo, asociada a dolor abdominal de tipo cólico, difuso. El tumor tanto macroscópicamente como histológicamente mostró las características conocidas del Nefroma Multiquístico. Esta entidad es de presentación inusual y su origen se ha descrito en la infancia, siendo su histogénesis incierta, por lo que se ha tratado de explicar a través de los sinónimos que ha recibido por diferentes autores, desde que fue descrito por primera vez en 1892