Transient proteinuria in an infant born to a mother with HELLP syndrome.
The syndrome of haemolysis, elevated liver enzymes and low platelet count (HELLP syndrome) is a severe form of pre-eclampsia and eclampsia associated with poor maternal and neonatal outcome. We report here the case of an infant born to a mother with HELLP syndrome. The infant was initially diagnosed as having nephrotic syndrome but after a follow-up period of 25 days proteinuria and oedema had disappeared.


CONCLUSIONS
to our knowledge, transient proteinuria with maternal HELLP syndrome has not been previously described in the literature.
Gunes
Tamer
T
Department of Paediatrics, Division of Neonatology, Faculty of Medicine, University of Erciyes, 38039 Kayseri, Turkey. trgunes@erciyes.edu.tr
Akcakus
Mustafa
M
Dusunsel
Ruhan
R
Cetin
Neside
N
Poyrazoglu
Hakan
H
D000328:Adult; D005260:Female; D017359:HELLP Syndrome / Q000150:complications*; D006801:Humans; D011247:Pregnancy; D011256:Pregnancy Outcome; D011507:Proteinuria / Q000209:etiology*; D013997:Time Factors