1. Clinical profile of children incidentally found to have advanced kidney failure
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Rossana Baracco, Melissa J. Gregory, Rudolph P. Valentini, Gaurav Kapur, Wael M. Abukwaik, and Amrish Jain
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Nephrology ,medicine.medical_specialty ,Hyperparathyroidism ,Anemia ,business.industry ,medicine.medical_treatment ,medicine.disease ,Hyperphosphatemia ,Internal medicine ,Pediatrics, Perinatology and Child Health ,Epidemiology ,Cohort ,medicine ,business ,Dialysis ,Kidney disease - Abstract
No data exist on the epidemiology of children incidentally diagnosed with advanced kidney failure (KF) during evaluation for non-specific symptoms. This is likely related to unrecognized symptoms and signs of CKD. The objective of our study was to evaluate incidentally diagnosed patients with advanced KF requiring long-term kidney replacement therapy (KRT). An IRB-approved retrospective chart review of children who started KRT with dialysis (hemo- or peritoneal) was conducted. Included were children with no prior knowledge or diagnosis of underlying kidney disease with chronic kidney disease (CKD) disease stage 4 (GFR 15–29 mL/min/1.73 m2) or 5 (GFR
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- 2021