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My thoughts about the Hemolytic Uremic Syndrome (HUS) got started in 1961 along with my attempt to return to Argentina. As I sought my way in Buenos Aires, I visited Carlos Gianantonio whom I had met in Caracas the year before during the Pan American pediatric meetings. At that time he was actively working on HUS which had become an epidemic in Buenos Aires and other parts of Argentina. I was impressed by the team effort and devotion of his group to such heavy demands. They obviously were meeting the challenge at an amazingly high level under a very crippling physical situation with shortages of space, laboratories and equipment. His group together with Dr. Becu, at the time the pathologist at the Children's Hospital of Buenos Aires (we had met through his mother who was instrumental in arranging my return to Buenos Aires), wrote some of the classic papers on HUS. Through the years as Dr. Gianantonio became more involved in general pediatrics, the administrative aspects and its orientation in Latin America, he became known for his deep philosophical questions as to what we are doing and where we are going. His questions have obvious implications regarding an agressive approach to our pediatric nephrology patients.
List of contents
I Hemolytic Uremic Syndrome.- The Hemolytic Uremic Syndrome: The Most Important Cause of Acute Renal Failure in Infants and Children.- Past and Present of Hemolytic Uremic Syndrome in Argentina.- Thrombocytopenia in Hemolytic Uremic Syndrome.- Uric Acid Perturbations in the Hemolytic Uremic Syndrome.- Extrarenal Manifestations of the Hemolytic Uremic Syndrome.- Similarities and Differences Between the Hemolytic-Uremic Syndrome and Thrombotic Thrombocytopenic Purpura.- Current Approaches to the Management of Hemolytic Uremic Syndrome.- Panel Discussion: Hemolytic Uremic Syndrome.- II Renal Emergencies.- Perinatal Asphyxia: Pathophysiology and an Approach Towards Therapy.- Seizures in Renal Disease.- Abdominal Mass in the Newborn.- Near-Drowning and the Kidney.- Intoxications in Children: A Nephrological Approach.- Treatment of Severe Hypertension in Children with Renal Disease.- Panel Discussion: Renal Emergencies.- III Acute Renal Diseases.- A Therapeutic Update of Superficial Skin Infections.- Glomerulonephropathies Causing the Acute Nephritic Syndrome: Similarities and Differences.- Circulating Immune-Complexes in Glomerular Disease.- Acute Manifestations of Systemic Lupus Erythematosus.- Renal Imaging in Acute Renal Disorders-Renal Emergencies.- Antimicrobial Agents in Urinary Tract Infections.- Panel Discussion: Acute Renal Diseases.- IV Acute Renal Failure.- Etiopathogenesis and Differential Diagnosis of Acute Renal Failure.- Mineral Metabolism in Acute Renal Failure.- Antimicrobial Therapy in Renal Failure.- Therapeutic Approach to the Child with Acute Renal Failure..- Some Aspects of Treatment of Septic Shock.- Panel Discussion: Acute Renal Failure.- V Workshop: Clinico-Pathologic Correlations.- Special Presentation: Peritoneal Dialysis in Children.- Participants.- Author Index.
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Proceedings of Pediatric Nephrology Seminar X, Held at Bal Harbour, Florida, January 30 - February 3, 1983
