Acute renal failure in non-fulminant hepatitis A infection.
A 7-year-old boy developed acute renal failure during the icteric phase of non-fulminant hepatitis A infection. He needed peritoneal dialysis for 3 days, which was followed by a rapid recovery in renal function which was normal when he was discharged 4 weeks later.
Mattoo
T K
TK
Department of Paediatric Nephrology, Maternity and Children's Hospital, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia.
Mahmood
M A
MA
al-Sowailem
A M
AM
D058186:Acute Kidney Injury / Q000209:etiology*; D002648:Child; D006506:Hepatitis A / Q000150:complications* / Q000175:diagnosis; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male