Paediatric Nephrology

1 Plenary Lectures.- 1.1 Structure and Function of the Renal Medulla.- 1.2 The Elucidation of Renal Transport Processes: A Multidisciplinary Approach.- 1.3 Immunopathogenesis of Glomerular Diseases.- 1.4 Bacterial Virulence and Host Defence in Acute and Recurrent Urinary Tract Infection.- 1.5 Philosophy and Ethics of Multicenter International Controlled Clinical Trials in Children.- 1.6 Paediatric Nephrology -- Past Achievements and Future Goals.- 1.7 The Continued Care of Paediatric Patients into Adult Life.- 2 Symposia Presentations.- 2.1 Physiology of Kidney Development.- 2.1.1 The Role of the Kidney in Phosphate Homeostasis During Growth.- 2.1.2 Effects of Hypoxemia on Renal Function During Maturation.- 2.1.3 Functional Adaptation to Reduced Renal Mass in Early Postnatal Development.- 2.2 Clinical Aspects of the Developing Kidney.- 2.2.1 Clinical Implications of a Low Glomerular Filtration Rate.- 2.2.2 Acute Renal Failure in Neonates.- 2.2.3 Sodium Homeostasis by the Newborn Kidney.- 2.2.4 The Newborn Kidney and Acid-Base Homeostasis.- 2.3 Nutrition in Paediatric Renal Disease.- 2.3.1 Diet in Renal Diseases: Old Practice, New Concepts.- 2.3.2 Nutrition in Children with Chronic Renal Insufficiency Who Are Not Receiving Chronic Dialysis Therapy.- 2.3.3 Nutritional Assessment of Hemodialyzed Children Using Urea Kinetics.- 2.3.4 Nutritional Considerations After the Institution of Dialysis.- 2.4 New Techniques in Paediatric Dialysis Treatment.- 2.4.1 Vascular Stability During Haemodialysis.- 2.4.2 New Methods of Vascular Access for Acute and Chronic Renal Failure.- 2.4.3 Haemofiltration in Children.- 2.4.4 Urea Kinetics and the Prescription of Dialysis Therapy.- 2.4.5 Continuous Ambulatory Peritoneal Dialysis in Children.- 2.5 Acute Renal Failure.- 2.5.1 Pathophysiology and Treatment Intervention in Acute Renal Failure.- 2.5.2 Acute Renal Failure: The Main Causes and Incidence in a Developing Country.- 2.5.3 The Nephrotoxicity of Antimicrobial Agents.- 2.5.4 Reducing the Likelihood of Acute Renal Failure After Renal Transplantation.- 2.6 Kidney Transplantation.- 2.6.1 Kidney Transplantation in Children: Results and Late Sequelae.- 2.6.2 Intraoperative and Immediate Postoperative Care in the Management of the Paediatric Transplant Recipient.- 2.6.3 Alternate-Day Steroids in Children After Renal Transplantation.- 2.6.4 Cyclosporin Treatment in Paediatric Kidney Transplantation.- 2.7 Cystinosis.- 2.7.1 Clinical and Biochemical Aspects of Cystinosis.- 2.7.2 Recent Biochemical Studies on the Role of Lysosomes in Cystine Metabolism.- 2.7.3 New Approaches in the Medical Treatment of Cystinosis.- 2.7.4 Kidney Transplantation in Nephropathic Cystinosis.- 2.8 Psychosocial Aspects in Children with Chronic Renal Disease.- 2.8.1 Current Issues in Comprehensive Care for Children with Chronic Illnesses.- 2.8.2 Neuropsychological Functioning in Adolescents on Chronic Hemodialysis.- 2.8.3 Psychosocial Problems in Patients with Infantile Nephropathic Cystinosis.- 2.8.4 The Psychological Impact of Uraemia on Socially Handicapped Children.- 2.8.5 The Psychosocial Consequences of Renal Disease and Its Treatment in Children and Adolescents: A Follow-Up Study.- 2.9 Immunologically Mediated Tubulointerstitial Nephritis.- 2.9.1 Human Anti-Tubular Basement Membrane Antibody Disease.- 2.9.2 Tubulointerstitial Immune Complex Nephritis.- 2.9.3 Autoimmunity to Tamm-Horsfall Protein in Tubulointerstitial Nephritis.- 2.9.4 Interstitial Renal Inflammation with Uveitis in Children.- 2.10 Glomerulopathies in Systemic Diseases.- 2.10.1 Shunt Nephritis.- 2.10.2 Henoch-Schönlein Nephritis: Prognostic Factors.- 2.10.3 The Nephritis of Systemic Lupus Erythematosus in Childhood and Adolescence.- 2.10.4 Stages in Diabetic Nephropathy.- 2.11 Glomerular Diseases in Special Populations.- 2.11.1 Hepatitis B Antigenaemia-Associated Nephropathy: Clinical Evolution and Seroconversion. A Report of the Asian Study of Renal Diseases in Children.- 2.11.2 Glomerular Involvement in Familial Mediterranean Fever.- 2.11.3 Parasitic Glomerulonephritis.- 2.12 Immunology and Coagulation in Nephrotic Syndrome.- 2.12.1 Introduction.- 2.12.2 T-Cell Functions in Nephrotic Syndrome.- 2.12.3 Vascular Permeability Factor and Other Lymphokines in Nephrotic Syndrome.- 2.12.4 The Role of Charge Sites in Vascular Permeability.- 2.12.5 The Coagulopathy of Nephrotic Syndrome.- 2.13 Haemolytic Uraemic Syndromes.- 2.13.1 The Haemolytic Uraemic Syndromes: The Dawn of a New Era.- 2.13.2 Studies on Coagulation and Complement in Haemolytic Uraemic Syndrom.- 2.13.3 Antithrombotic Therapy in Childhood Haemolytic Uraemic Syndrome: A Randomised Prospective Study.- 2.13.4 Prostacyclin Deficiency in Haemolytic Uraemic Syndrome.- 2.13.5 Endotheliotropic (Haemolytic) Nephropathy -- Pathohistological and Clinical Variants and the Unifying Concept.- 2.14 Recurrent Urinary Tract Infection.- 2.14.1 Natural History of Symptomatic Urinary Tract Infection in Childhood.- 2.14.2 Long-Term Aspects of Covert Bacteriuria: A 10-Year Follow-up of Cardiff Schoolgirls.- 2.14.3 Approach to the Dynamics of Bladder Dysfunction in Girls with Recurrent Urinary Tract Infections.- 2.14.4 Treatment of Recurrent Urinary Tract Infection.- 2.15 Vesico-ureteral Reflux and Renal Scarring.- 2.15.1 Reflux Grade at First Presentation and the Risk of Renal Scarring.- 2.15.2 Morphology of Renal Papillae in Normal Kidneys and Its Correlation with the Frequency of Scarring in Young Children with Dilatating Reflux.- 2.15.3 The Role of Tamm-Horsfall Protein and Autoimmunity to the Protein -- A Diagnostic Tool and Marker of Abnormal Urinary Flow.- 2.15.4 Reflux Nephropathy or Delay Nephropathy.- 2.16 The Neurogenic Bladder Dysfunction.- 2.16.1 The Investigation of the Neuropathic Bladder.- 2.16.2 Urodynamic Investigations in the Neuropathic Bladder.- 2.16.3 The Medical Management and Surgical Treatment of the Neuropathic Bladder.- 2.16.4 The Prognosis of Neuropathic Bladder Disease in Childhood.- 2.17 Renal Dysplasias and Cystic Diseases.- 2.17.1 Renal Dysplasia: Morphologic and Family Studies.- 2.17.2 Intrauterine Fetal Surgery: Medical and Ethical Considerations.- 2.17.3 Sonography of Renal Cystic Disease and Dysplasia in Infants and Children.- 2.17.4 Polycystic Kidney Disease in Infants.- 2.18 Hypertension -- Diagnosis and Treatment.- 2.18.1 Hypertension in the Neonate.- 2.18.2 Hypertension in the Adolescent; Physiologic Studies and Treatment Issues.- 2.18.3 Renovascular Hypertension: Association with Cerebrovascular Disease and Comparison of Investigative Procedures.- 2.18.4 Value of Measurement of Erythrocyte Cation Fluxes as a Genetic Marker in Essential Hypertension of Adolescents and Children.- 2.19 Vitamin D in Renal Diseases.- 2.19.1 Recent Advances in the Understanding of Vitamin D Metabolism.- 2.19.2 Inborn Errors of Vitamin D Metabolism.- 2.19.3 Vitamin D Metabolism in Longstanding Nephrotic Syndrome and Chronic Renal Insufficiency.- 2.20 Prostaglandins and Inhibitors.- 2.10.1 Prostaglandins and Clinical Nephrology.- 2.20.2 The Regulatory Role of Prostaglandins.- 2.20.3 Renal Pharmacology of the Prostaglandin Synthesis Inhibitor Indomethacin.