Ulcera escleral secundaria a quemadura química por pila de reloj y cuerpo extraño retenido en fondo de saco conjuntival inferior: caso clínico / Scleral ulcer secondary to chemical burn caused by watch battery and retained foreign body in conjunctival sac inside. Case report

Introducción: Aproximadamente un tercio de las cegueras infantiles son debidas a los traumatismos, siendo la principal causa de déficit visual y ceguera monocular en ninos. caso clínico: Se reporta el caso de un preescolar masculino de 2 años de edad quien presentó úlcera escleral en ojo izquierdo secundaria a quemadura química por pila de reloj cuyo motivo de consulta fue contacto con detergente, con cicatrización dificultosa debido a cuerpo extraño mineral retenido en fondo de saco conjuntival inferior durante aproximadamente un mes, contando desde el ingreso al área pediátrica. conclusión: Se reporta un caso inusual de úlcera escleral. Hasta el momento no se han reportado otros casos de úlcera escleral secundaria a quemadura química por pila de reloj y por objetos retenidos en fondo de saco conjuntival inferior, resaltando el manejo diagnóstico y la demora en la extracción del cuerpo extraño, representando una emergencia oftalmológica.

Introduction: Approximately one-third of childhood blindness is due to trauma, representing the leading cause of visual impairment and monocular blindness in children. case report: The patient is a 2 year old preschool boy, who presented scleral ulcer in his left eye secondary to chemical burn caused by watch battery. The reason for seeking medical care was difficult healing caused by a mineral foreign body retained in the lower conjunctival sac after the patient came in contact with detergent one month before the pediatric consultation. Discussion: An unusual case of scleral ulcer was reported. So far, no other similar cases have been reported. The diagnosis process and the delay for the removal of the foreign body are emphasized in this serious ophthalmologic emergency.

Home blood pressure monitoring in paediatric chronic hypertension.

Blood pressure (BP) measurement is the basis for the diagnosis and management of arterial hypertension. The aim of this study was to compare BP measurements performed in the office and at home (home blood pressure monitoring, HBPM) in children and adolescents with chronic arterial hypertension. HBPM was performed by the patient or by his/her legal guardian. During a 14-day period, three BP measurements were performed in the morning or in the afternoon (daytime measurement) and in the evening (night-time measurement), with 1-min intervals between measurements, totalling six measurements per day. HBPM was defined for systolic blood pressure (SBP) and diastolic blood pressure (DBP) values. HBPM was evaluated in 40 patients (26 boys), mean age of 12.1 years (4-18 years). SBP and DBP records were analysed. The mean differences between average HBP and doctor's office BP were 0.6+/-14 and 4+/-13 mm Hg for SBP and DBP, respectively. Average systolic HBPM (daytime and night-time) did not differ from average office BP, and diastolic HBPM (daytime and night-time) was statistically lower than office BP. The comparison of individual BP measurements along the study period (13 days) by s.d. of differences shows a significant decline only for DBP values from day 5, on which difference tends to disappear towards the end of the study. Mean daytime and night-time SBP and DBP values remained stable throughout the study period, confirming HBPM as an acceptable methodology for BP evaluation in hypertensive children and adolescents.

Percutaneous ultrasound-guided renal biopsy in children - safety, efficacy, indications and renal pathology findings: 14-year Brazilian university hospital experience.

INTRODUCTION: Pediatric percutaneous renal biopsy (Bx) is a routine procedure in pediatric nephrology to obtain renal tissues for histological study. We evaluated the safety, efficacy, indications and renal findings of this procedure at a tertiary care pediatric university hospital and compared our findings with the literature. METHODS: Retrospective study based on medical records from January 1993 to June 2006. RESULTS: In the study period, 305 Bx were performed in 262 patients, 127 (48.5%) male, aged 9.8 A+/- 4.2 years. A 16-gauge needle was utilized in 56/305 Bx, an 18-gauge needle in 252/305 Bx (82.6%). 56.1% Bx were performed under sedation plus local anesthesia, 43.9% under general anesthesia. The number of punctures per Bx was 3.1 A+/- 1.3. Minor complications occurred in 8.6% procedures. The 16-gauge needle caused a higher frequency of renal hematomas (p = 0.05). The number of glomeruli per puncture was >or= 5 in 96.7% and >or= 7 in 92%. Glomeruli number per puncture and frequency of complications were not different according to the type of anesthesia used. A renal pathology diagnosis was achieved in 93.1% Bx. The main indications of Bx were nephrotic syndrome (NS), lupus nephritis (LN) and hematuria (HE). The diagnosis of minimal change disease (MCD) (61.3%), class V (35.6%) and IgA nephropathy (26.3%) predominated in NS, LN and HE patients, respectively. CONCLUSION: Pediatric real-time ultrasound-guided percutaneous renal biopsy was safe and effective. The main clinical indications for Bx were NS and LN, the predominant renal pathology diagnoses were MCD and class V LN.

Neonatal arterial hypertension in nephro-urological malformations in a tertiary care hospital.

An increase in the survival of neonates with antenatal diagnosis of malformations was achieved by the recent technical advances in neonatal intensive care units. The aim of this article is to describe the experience with neonatal arterial hypertension, in newborns with nephro-urological malformations, in a tertiary care referral Nursery, in a period of 4 years. Newborn medical records from the Nursery Annex to the Maternity of Hospital das Clinicas, School of Medicine, University of Sao Paulo, with the diagnosis of nephro-urological malformations and systemic arterial hypertension (SAH) at hospital discharge, in a period from January 1999 to January 2003, were retrospectively analysed. Among 10.278 live newborns in the studied period, 15 (0.15%) newborns were compatible with our inclusion criteria. Of these 15 newborns, 12 (80%) were male and three were premature (20%). In relation to aetiology, 13 (87%) showed urological malformations, 1 (6%) chronic renal insufficiency secondary to kidney dysplasia and one (6%) autosomal recessive polycystic kidney disease. SAH control was achieved with monotherapy in eight patients (53%), five patients (33%) needed an association of two drugs (calcium-channel blocker and angiotensin converting enzyme (ACE) inhibitor), one child used three types of antihypertensive drugs (calcium-channel blocker, ACE inhibitor and hydrochlorothiazide) for pressoric control and one child's blood pressure (BP) was controlled exclusively by peritoneal dialysis. The incidence of nephro-urological malformations in our service during the studied period was 0.89%. SAH incidence among these newborns was 19%. Our data reinforce previous studies pointing to the necessity to consider children with nephro-urological malformations as a risk group for SAH, who should have the BP evaluated since the neonatal period.

Comparison between casual blood pressure and ambulatory blood pressure monitoring parameters in healthy and hypertensive adolescents.

Casual blood pressure measurements were compared with mean ambulatory blood pressure values during wakefulness and sleep in 45 normotensive and 30 hypertensive adolescents of both sexes aged 10-18 years. Two sets of auscultatory casual blood pressure were obtained, one in a pediatric office setting (office blood pressure), performed by the physician, and one in the ambulatory blood pressure monitoring (ABPM) unit, performed by a trained nurse, prior to the initiation of ABPM (pre-ABPM blood pressure). In normotensive and hypertensive subjects of both sexes, the mean office systolic blood pressure (SBP) was lower than the mean pre-ABPM SBP, and the mean office diastolic blood pressure (DBP) was lower than the mean pre-ABPM DBP. In normotensive participants, the mean pre-ABPM SBP/DBP was lower than the mean ABPM SBP/DBP while awake, the mean ABPM SBP/DBP during sleep being lower than the mean ABPM SBP/DBP values while awake and the mean pre-ABPM SBP/DBP. No statistical difference was demonstrated between the mean office SBP and the mean ABPM SBP during sleep, the mean ABPM DBP during sleep being lower than the mean office DBP. The hypertensive adolescents presented a blood pressure profile similar to that of the normotensive group, albeit shifted upwards, with no significant difference between the mean pre-ABPM SBP and the mean ABPM SBP while awake but a higher mean pre-ABPM DBP than mean ABPM DBP while awake. This study suggests that, by evaluating the casual blood pressure in different environment/observer situations, the power of casual blood pressure to predict inadequate blood pressure control, manifested as abnormal ABPM parameters, can be enhanced. Our data indicate ABPM to be the method of choice for the early diagnosis and adequate follow-up of adolescent hypertension.

White coat hypertension in adolescents.

BACKGROUND: Although white coat hypertension (WCH) seems to occur in 20% or more of the adult hypertensive population, this clinical condition has rarely been described in adolescents. DESIGN: Routine use of ambulatory blood pressure monitoring (ABPM) procedure as part of the investigation of arterial hypertension in adolescents. METHODS: Office blood pressure was checked after 5 minutes of rest in the seated position by the auscultation method and ABPM was performed with oscillometrical equipment (SpaceLabs 90207, Redmond, Washington, USA). RESULTS: In the present study 6 adolescents (5 females, 3 white), suspected to suffer from arterial hypertension as judged by office blood pressure measurements, mean age 15.1 years (12.2 - 17.7), mean height 164.5 cm, mean weight 77.2 kg, mean body mass index 28.8 kg/m2 (25 - 35.2), were diagnosed with WCH using ambulatory blood pressure monitoring (ABPM). CONCLUSION: White coat hypertension should also be considered in the evaluation of arterial hypertension in adolescents.

Ambulatory blood pressure monitoring of chronically dialyzed pediatric patients.

BACKGROUND: Background Ambulatory blood pressure monitoring (ABPM) has been shown to be more representative of blood pressure levels in adult patients than are casual measurements of blood pressure. OBJECTIVE: To evaluate, by means of ABPM, the behavior of blood pressure in children with chronic renal failure submitted to continuous ambulatory peritoneal dialysis and compare the results with casual blood pressure monitoring measurements. DESIGN: Evaluation of blood pressures in chronically dialyzed pediatric patients by ABPM. METHODS: Ten pediatric patients, treated by continuous ambulatory peritoneal dialysis were evaluated by ABPM using the oscillometric SpaceLabs 90207 monitor, every 10 min during the day and every 15 min during the night, for 24h. RESULTS: Six of 10 patients were found normotensive by office measurement of blood pressure; four of 10 patients were found hypertensive by casual measurements of blood pressure. With ABPM we obtained a mean success rate of 92.5%, confirmed hypertension in all the patients classified hypertensive in terms of office readings and reclassified six of six patients from normotensive to hypertensive. The mean systolic and diastolic physiologic falls in blood pressure at night were respectively by 10 and 15%. At the time of the ABPM study end-organ damage was present in two patients judged to be normotensive in terms of office blood pressures. CONCLUSION: Casual recordings of blood pressure are not representative of average blood pressure in dialyzed pediatric patients. ABPM seems to be a useful diagnostic aid for assessing treatment of hypertension in children with end-stage renal disease.

Population studies of ambulatory blood pressure monitoring in Brazilian children.

BACKGROUND: The determination of hypertension in a given population depends on the knowledge of population norms for blood pressure. This is true for both casual blood pressure (CBP) measurements and the newest and most promising technology of ambulatory blood pressure monitoring (ABPM). OBJECTIVE: To design an ambitious multinational co-operative study to determine normal blood pressure data in Brazilian children. METHODS: The study was designed to determine normative data for CBP, using the Task Force technical recommendations for age-, sex- and height-percentile-specific blood pressure values. The proposed procedure is as follows. ABPM will be studied in a random subgroup of individuals, to develop similar normative data. These data will be correlated to CBP measurements and to echocardiographic findings as a measure of end-organ damage. All patients who are diagnosed by CBP measurement to be hypertensive will also be studied by ABPM, and studies of target-organ damage will be performed. Family and medical histories will be evaluated by questionnaire and first-degree relatives will be evaluated for CBP measurement. Hypertensive patients will form a cohort for long-term follow-up. These data will be the foundation for studies of hypertension in Brazilian children.

Primary hyperparathyroidism in children: patient report and review of the literature.

Although primary hyperparathyroidism has rarely been described in pediatric patients, prompt diagnosis can avoid severe CNS and metabolic consequences. The aim of this paper is to report a 6 year-old girl whose first symptoms began at eight days of age with cyanosis, hypotonia, and upward gaze deviation. At 4 months, she was admitted due to neurologic disorders and recurrent infection, but the definite diagnosis was made only six years later. Her serum calcium levels are among the highest ever reported in the medical literature, reaching 25.5 mg/dl (6.36 mmol/l). Hypercalcemia, very high levels of parathormone (1550 ng/l--normal range 10-65) and bone deformities posed no problem to diagnosis when she first came to our attention. Nephrocalcinosis and impaired renal function were detected and this child had to be treated with diuretics (furosemide) and hydration that were able to lower her serum calcium levels. Imaging studies including 99mTc-sestamibi scan were not diagnostic. At surgery, the four parathyroid glands were mildly enlarged, with primary hyperplasia. The four glands were removed, cryopreserved, and 14 fragments (1 mm each) were autotransplanted to the braquioradial muscle of the left forearm. After a first phase of hypocalcemia (hungry-bone syndrome), treated with calcium and calcitriol, the calcium levels stabilized. The question is whether she will experience some degree of recovery from her neurological problems, since her severely high calcium levels have been maintained for such a long time.

[Hematuria in children: retrospective study of 128 pediatric patients] / Hematúria na criança: estudo retrospectivo de 128 casos.

OBJECTIVE: To evaluate the diagnostic frequency of the various diseases associated with the development of hematuria in children, in a pediatric nephrology unit pertaining to a university hospital. METHODS: The clinical records of 128 children (70 male, 50 female) who presented intermittent/persistent macroscopic hematuria or persistent microscopic hematuria as the chief clinical complaint/finding, in the period of 1978-1995, were retrospectively analyzed. This evaluation was performed with special attention to the patientacute;s clinical history, physical examination, personal and family morbid history information. Patients whose investigation was not complete were not considered for analysis. The mean age on presentation was 8.2 years (5 months - 16 years) and the mean period of observation was 3.2 years (1 month-15 years). RESULTS: Macroscopic hematuria occurred in 104 patients and persistent microscopic hematuria was present in 24 patients. Urinary metabolic disturbances and urinary lithiasis, alone or in association, were diagnosed in the majority of the patients (65.5%). Hypercalciuria was the urinary metabolic disturbance (90.1%) mostly detected, either alone (73.2%) or in association with hyperuricosuria (16.9%). A positive family history of lithiasis was reported in 32.1% of the patients in which the diagnosis of lithiasis/urinary metabolic disturbance was confirmed. Glomerulopathies were diagnosed in 25% of the patients, with the predominance of post-infectious acute glomerulonephritis (11 patients, 34%). In 6 children, the etiology of hematuria was not elucidated, despite extensive investigation, including renal biopsy.CONCLUSION: The authors present an algorithm for the diagnosis of hematuria in children and suggest that in cases of isolated hematuria, presenting without clinical clues to the possible etiology, laboratory investigation should be started with the evaluation of urinary metabolic disturbances / lithiasis.

[Ambulatory blood pressure monitoring in normal adolescents]. / Monitorização ambulatorial da pressão arterial em adolescentes normais.

PURPOSE: To evaluate technical aspects of ambulatory blood pressure monitoring (ABPM) in normal adolescents. METHODS: Forty five normal adolescents (27 female), 10-18 years old. RESULTS: ABPM recordings showed a mean of 90% successful readings; 30% of the patients complained of sleep disruption related to the functioning of the ABPM monitor; the mean systolic, diastolic and heart rate fall during sleep was 13%, 23% and 24% respectively; the mean systolic and diastolic blood pressure load, while awake, was in male adolescents 25.4 +/- 27.7% and 11.8 +/- 14.6%, and in female adolescents, 17.5 +/- 18.7% and 11.8 +/- 11.4%, respectively; the mean systolic and diastolic blood pressure load, while asleep, was in male adolescents 15.4 +/- 22.9% and 2.8 +/- 4.9% and, in female adolescents, 10.5 +/- 18.2% and 1.8 +/- 2.7%, respectively; the mean diastolic values of the first two hours of recording were higher than the ones obtained during the rest of the hours of recording while awake; different mean systolic, diastolic and heart rate values were found during the afternoon and nocturnal sleep periods. CONCLUSION: ABPM was well accepted by the adolescent population, with good technical results.

Tratamiento quirúrgico de neuritis hansenianas / Surgical treatment of hansenian neuritis

Los autores analizan los problemas del tratamiento quirúrgico de las neuritis hansenianas. Se establecen los criterios que deben ser utilizados. Ubican la cirugía en el contexto terapéutico. Presentan ejemplos de su casuística. Se sugiere uniformar los criterios a fin de tornar comparativos los resultados

Tratamiento quirúrgico de neuritis hansenianas / Surgical treatment of hansenian neuritis

Los autores analizan los problemas del tratamiento quirúrgico de las neuritis hansenianas. Se establecen los criterios que deben ser utilizados. Ubican la cirugía en el contexto terapéutico. Presentan ejemplos de su casuística. Se sugiere uniformar los criterios a fin de tornar comparativos los resultados

Accelerated growth after recombinant human growth hormone treatment of children with chronic renal failure.

We studied the effect of recombinant human growth hormone treatment on five boys, aged 4.6 +/- 1.8 years, who had chronic renal failure secondary to congenital renal diseases (mean creatinine clearance (+/- SD): 18.3 +/- 6.3 ml/min/1.73 m2 (0.32 +/- 0.11 ml/sec/1.73 m2]. Patients received 0.125 mg/kg of growth hormone three times per week for 1 year. Before beginning treatment, the children had a mean annual growth velocity of 4.9 +/- 1.4 cm/yr (range 3.0 to 6.3 cm/yr), with a mean standard deviation score for a height of -2.98 +/- 0.73 (range -2.16 to -3.59). At the end of therapy, the mean growth velocity had increased to 8.9 +/- 1.2 cm/yr (range 7.5 to 10.7 cm/yr), and the mean height standard deviation score improved to -2.36 +/- 0.83 (range -1.15 to -3.18). Bone age advancement was consistent with the period of growth. Routine laboratory determinations, including results of glucose tolerance testing, did not vary significantly from pretreatment levels. These preliminary data indicate that growth-retarded children with chronic renal failure can respond to exogenous growth hormone therapy with a marked acceleration in growth velocity.

Acao de contraste iodado hidrossoluvel na atividade motora da juncao coledoco-duodenal. Estudo experimental. / Action of the water-soluble iodine contrast on the motor activity of the choledocoduodenal junction. Experimental study

Estudou-se a variacao da resistencia ao nivel do esfincter de Oddi, provocada pela infusao no interior do coledoco de caes anestesiados de solucoes concentradas de contraste iodado (Hypaque R) a 25% e 50%. As infusoes eram feitas a fluxo constante, sendo registradas as pressoes intra coledocinas. Analisaram-se as pressoes maximas e minimas, assim como o numero de contracoes por minuto, no 1o, 15o e 30o minutos de perfusao. Os resultados foram comparados com a perfusao com soro fisiologico. As perfusoes com contraste iodado, tanto a 25% como 50%, nao provocaram alteracoes significativas das pressoes intracoledocianas, porem condicionaram reducao significativa do numero de contracoes por minuto.Estas observacoes demonstram ser incorretas as ideias correntes de que solucoes concentradas de contraste iodado promovem espasmo do esfincter de Oddi