Pediatric Nephrology
Pediatric Nephrology is dedicated to care of children with renal diseases like urinary tract infection, bowel bladder dysfunction, nephrotic syndrome, chronic glomerulonephritis, acute and chronic renal failure, congenital renal anomalies, tubular disorders, systemic severe and progressive renal disorders. Pediatric nephrology covers a large field of medical developments, including genetics, care strategies, and renal preservation. Most of the Pediatric kidney diseases are congenital, some of them familial with a precise heredity. Chronic dialysis remains a life event for most of the children on end-stage renal disease despite the growing place of pre-emptive kidney transplantation. A recent population-based study in the Gironde region of France reported an incidence of about 2.3 Pediatric cases of idiopathic nephrotic syndrome for every 100,000 children <15 years of age. Pediatric nephrologist have the special skills and experience to treat child. Pediatric nephrologists treat children from infancy through late adolescence and in some centres up to young adulthood.
- Track 1-1 Clinical Pediatric Nephrology
- Track 2-2 Pediatric Kidney Failure Diet
- Track 3-3 Pediatric Kidney Dialysis