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Chronic renal failure in Kuwaiti children: an eight-year experience

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Over an 8-year period (January 1996 to December 2003), a total of 171 patients below the age of 15 years were diagnosed with chronic renal failure. The mean incidence rate of CRF in Kuwaiti children was found to be 38.2 per million children per year, with a peak incidence of 55 per million children per year. While the mean age at diagnosis was 33±12 months (range: 1 month to 15 years), the male:female ratio was 2.7:1. Etiological factors for chronic renal failure included congenital urological malformation (61.9%), chronic glomerulopathies (5.2%), hereditary nephropathies (21%), multi-system disease (0.5%), chronic pyelonephritis (without VUR) (4.6%), tumors (0.6%), ischemic renal disease (1.1%) and unknown etiology (1.7%). Thirty percent of patients reached end-stage renal disease within a mean of 18 months following diagnosis. The overall mortality before reaching ESRD was reported to be 4%. Kuwait has one of the highest incidence and prevalence rates of CRF in children. It is likely that genetic and hereditary factors are the cause of these high rates.

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  1. Department of Pediatrics, Faculty of Medicine, Kuwait University, P.O. Box 24923, 13110, Safat, Kuwait

    Amal Al-Eisa

  2. Department of Pediatrics, Mubarak Hospital, Ministry of Health, Kuwait

    Majeda Naseef & Nadia Al-Hamad

  3. Department of Pediatrics, Adan Hospital, Ministry of Health, Kuwait

    Raimundo Pinto

  4. Department of Pediatrics, Farwaniya Hospital, Ministry of Health, Kuwait

    Nofoud Al-Shimeri

  5. Department of Pediatrics, Jahra Hospital, Ministry of Health, Kuwait

    Mazen Tahmaz

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Al-Eisa, A., Naseef, M., Al-Hamad, N. et al. Chronic renal failure in Kuwaiti children: an eight-year experience. Pediatr Nephrol 20, 1781–1785 (2005). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00467-005-2000-z

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