Neurological Manifestations of Renal Diseases in Children at Zagazig University Hospital | ||
| The Egyptian Journal of Hospital Medicine | ||
| Article 30, Volume 81, Issue 1, October 2020, Pages 1338-1341 PDF (329.48 K) | ||
| Document Type: Original Article | ||
| DOI: 10.21608/ejhm.2020.113394 | ||
| Authors | ||
| Ahmed Galal Siam1; Mohammed Mohammed Abdel Salam1; Hatim Saed Haweej* 2 | ||
| 1Department of Pediatrics, Faculty of Medicine, Zagazig University, Sharkia, Egypt | ||
| 2Department of Pediatrics, Faculty of Medicine, Almergib University, Libya | ||
| Abstract | ||
| Background: Chronic renal failure (CRF) may have many effects on the nervous system and manifest as headache, seizure, dialysis disequilibrium syndrome, cerebral hemorrhage, hypertensive encephalopathy, uremic neuropathy. Objectives: This study aimed to identify the neurological manifestations in children with renal diseases at Zagazig University hospital. Subjects and methods: This is cross-sectional was carried out in the Pediatrics Department, Zagazig University Hospitals, on 270 Children with renal diseases during the period from January 2019 till June 2019. All patients included in the study were subjected to history taking, detailed data about renal diseases. Results: our results revealed that Frequency of neurological manifestations in renal disease patients was (3%), Common presentations of renal diseases was (7.4%) had dysuria, (70.37%) had edema, (3,7 %) had hematuria, (18.51%) had hypertension and 8 cases (3%) had neurological presentations, of whom, 5 had febrile seizures, 2 had cerebral thromboembolism, and 1 encephalopathy. Conclusion: Neurological manifestations of pediatric renal diseases still are common and the neurological presentations in 3 % of children with renal diseases, and febrile seizures were the most common presentation. | ||
| Keywords | ||
| Renal disease; Children; Neurological manifestations | ||
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