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F Mota Hernández

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[Chronic interstitial nephritis caused by analgesics].

Interstitial nephritis secondary to analgesic ingestion is apparently an uncommon subject in pediatric literature. Two cases are reported in this article: case 1 is a girl followed for the last fifteen years when she had lipoid nephrosis which was treated initially with corticosteroids; she responded satisfactorily, but presented frequent relapses. After 8 years, she was given cyclophosphamide plus prednisone and lately, she responded and has remained well. Further on, her urinalysis showed specific gravity of 1,033 and no proteinuria. Five years ago, because of protracted headache due to psychological disturbance, she started to ingest a variety of analgesics in progressively increasing doses. For the last 2 years, abdominal pains, paleness, polydipsia and polyuria have been observed; at present, her blood pressure, serum chemistry, and urine sediment are normal, but there is a marked failure in the renal concentration capacity, as well as marked sodium urinary losses. A percutaneous renal biopsy showed tubulo-interstitial fibrosis and edema with normal glomeruli. Case 2 is a girl with rheumatoid arthritis which appeared 3 years ago; for over one year, the patient was given 15 mg/day prednisone plus 1.5 g. acetylsalycilic acid. She was admitted to the hospital because her osteoarticular problem did not improve. Her blood pressure, blood chemistries and urinary sediment were also normal. LE tests were negative. Renal concentrating capacity was reduced and the renal biopsy showed tubular atrophy; there was intestinal edema and mononuclear infiltration. Chronic interstitial nephritis, secondary to analgesics is supported in both cases; polyuria and a marked defect of renal concentrating capacity are the earliest and most characteristic features. Normal urinary sediment is a common finding leading to erroneous assessment of a lack of renal involvement. Pathological lesions are located in the interstice of the renal medulla and sometimes in the papilla. Early arrest of analgesic ingestion may stop and even reverse the renal lesion and the renal insufficiency.

Adrenal Cortex Hormones↗
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[Pyelonephritis and bacterial tubulointerstitial nephritis].

With the purpose of establishing the clinicopathologic correlation in pyelonephritis and to discard other interstitial nephrites, with present day morphologic criteria we analysed 63 casos that had been diagnosed as pyelonephritis, following Weiss and Parker's histologic criterion. The clinicopathologic diagnosis of pyelonephritis was confirmed in 12 cases; all of them showed obstructive uropathy and in most of them, there was chronic renal failure. Interstitial nephritis was established in 27 cases, all of them showing septicemia and almost half of the cases showed acute renal failure. Other 20 cases showed tubulointerstitial nephritis secondary to different types of glomerulopathies, fetal glomerulosclerosis, dysplasias, nephrophthisis, radiation nephritis and renal infarct. In 4 cases, the study of sections finer than the original, showed absence of histopathologic lesions. The results of the present study point out the main causes of confusion with the pathological diagnosis of pyelonephritis, the necessity to investigate predisposing uropathy in patients with urinary infection and stresses the importance to establish correlation with clinical and laboratory findings in cases with tubulointerstitial lesions.

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[Recurrent hematuria of glomerular origin].

Nine hundred and forty children with hematuria were admitted to the nephrology service from 1958 to 1973. Percutaneous renal biopsies were performed in all of them. Thirty cases out of this group had recurrent hematuria and constitute the clinical material of this study. The clinical picture was: acute nephrotic syndrome in 19; monosymptomatic hematuria in 8, anaphylactoid purpura nephritis in 2, and hematuria associated with nephrotic syndrome in one patient. All patients with nephritic syndrome showed in their biopsies various types of glomerular lesions; most of the patients with monosymptomatic hematuria had normal glomeruli; at the light microscopy, the immunofluorescence was positive in some of them. Both patients with anaphylactoid nephritis showed diffuse endocapillary and focal extracapillary proliferation and in the only one with nephrotic syndrome, the hematuria was familial and the biopsy showed features of Alport's syndrome. Twenty-four patients who were followed for over two years showed no relationship between the age of onset, sex, initial significant proteinuria, hypertension, frequency of bouts of hematuria and the clinical evolution. At the end of the study, 7 patients had prolonged remission: the light microscopy showed normal glomeruli, endocapillary proliferation and endo and extracapillary proliferation with less than 30% of the glomeruli affected by "crescents". The remaining cases were still active and one of them with endo and extracapillary glomerulonephritis with more than 30% of the glomeruli affected by "crescents", developed chronic renal insufficiency. In conclusion, the prognosis of recurrent hematuria of glomerular origen is related with the type of glomerular lesions and constitutes an indication for renal biopsy. Renal specimens must be studied under light microscopy and immunofluorescence techniques; electromicroscopy is required when hematuria is present in more than one member of the family.

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[Renal failure and rickets].

Acute renal failure secondary to interstitial nephritis caused by therapeutic ingestion of sodium diphenylhydantoins has been reported recently. The interference of sodium diphenylhydantoins on Vitamin D metabolism causing or aggravating ricketts has also been reported. This communication deals with an infant girl who was admitted to the hospital due to seizures. Four months before, she had convulsions and she was treated with diphenylhydantoins until admission. She was found to have renal failure and ricketts. Histological diagnosis of interstitial nephritis was established by means of percutaneous renal biopsy. Clinical and radiological improvement of ricketts was observed after dehydrotachysterol treatment. Clinical and biochemical alterations of renal failure slowly subsided. She had a clear-cut history of vitamin D defficiency ricketts. Seizures were due to hypocalcemia tetany but was erroneusly treated as "grand mal" epilepsy, with diphenylhydantoins. Interstitial nephritis complicated with acute renal failure was probably caused by diphenylhydantoins administration.

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[Familial juvenile nephronopthisis].

For the last 20 years, 11 patients with clinicopathologic diagnosis of nephronopththisis or medullary cystic disease, have been studied at the Nephrology Department of the Hospital Infantil de México. The initial manifestations took place at ages from 3 to 12 years and consisted of polyuria and polydipsia with reduction of vasopressin resistant urinary concentration capacity. Most cases showed anemia and pondostatural delay even at periods previous to renal insufficiency initiation. All cases showed normal urinary sediment with persistently negative urine cultures and progressed to chronic renal insufficiency after 1 to 10 years of evolution. Eight cases showed familial character. Histopathologic findings were similar and consisted of tubular disorders with alternation of atrophic tubuli having thickened basal and dilated tubuli having normal or flattened epithelium; renal medullary cysts were shown in some cases.

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Technic and complications of percutaneous renal biopsy.

A detailed technique to carry out percutaneous renal biopsy is described, together with the complications found in 1,463 procedures. A total of 350 complications (24%) were found, but gross hematuria stood out as the most frequent. In most cases, hematuria was mild and disappeared spontaneously; only 3 patients required transfusion. Following biopsy, 57 cases showed arterial hypertension. One case developed perirenal abscess which was drained surgically. The most important complication was the development of renal pyogenic abscess in a case which ended up in nephrectomy. It is concluded that renal biopsy should be performed only in those cases where the benefit attained by the information surpasses the potential risk. Renal biopsy does not consist only in the taking of a specimen, but also in its adequate study by a specialist with knowledge in renal pathology.

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