children with “kidney failure”
Dr. Abeer Muhammad Al-Malki, a pediatric nephrologist at the Children''s Hospital in Taif, attributed the most important causes of renal failure in children to congenital malformations, genetic cysts and inflammation of the renal filters. She added that the hospital monitored 70% of the sick cases in newborns with renal failure due to congenital malformations and defects of the kidney pelvis.
The number of patients attending the hospital’s kidney clinic is estimated at between 400-500 patients per year, where the highest percentage of patients with nephrotic syndrome (nephrotic syndrome), where 150 cases of kidney syndrome or albumin were diagnosed, with an average of 2 to 3 cases per month, and most of these cases respond to cortisone, and in In the same regard, the number of chronic renal failure cases decreased by 20 cases at different stages of pathological development.
She indicated that the hospital had trained a number of nurses on the peritoneal dialysis technique professionally in a short period of time. Yesterday, the Children''s Hospital in Taif hosted an exhibition and a scientific symposium devoted to celebrating World Kidney Day under the slogan "Let''s stop acute renal failure".
