title: Chronic renal failure: an overview from a pediatric perspective.
abstract: We present data on the costs and impact of chronic renal failure, the primary renal diseases leading to end-stage renal disease in children, and review the adaptive responses and the pathophysiology and complications of uremia in experimental animals and in man. A treatment strategy is summarized.
authors.affiliation: Nephrology Division, Department of Pediatrics and Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biophysics, Virginia Commonwealth University's Medical College of Virginia, Richmond, Va., USA.
authors.forename: P
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Saborio
authors.forename: S
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Hahn
authors.forename: S
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Hisano
authors.forename: K
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Latta
authors.forename: J I
authors.initials: JI
authors.lastname: Scheinman
authors.forename: J C
authors.initials: JC
authors.lastname: Chan
mesh_terms: D000222:Adaptation, Physiological; D000818:Animals; D002648:Child; D003365:Costs and Cost Analysis; D006801:Humans; D007676:Kidney Failure, Chronic / Q000150:complications / Q000191:economics* / Q000503:physiopathology / Q000628:therapy; D014481:United States; D014511:Uremia / Q000150:complications; D014883:Water-Electrolyte Imbalance / Q000503:physiopathology