Abstract:

Purpose: The aim of this study was to retrospectively evaluate the incidence of post-infectious glomerulonephritis (PIGN) in department of Pediatric Nephrology at Cukurova University  between November-December 2016.  Materials and Methods: The clinical and laboratory datas of 13 children with PIGN who were seen in our clinic between November-December 2016, and their follow-up results were evaluated retrospectively. Results: Thirteen children who diagnosed PIGN were evaluated with the mean age of 9 (3-15) years. All of the patients had history of throat or gastrointestinal infections. Symptoms of the patients at admission were edema (100%), oliguria (38.5%), macroscopic hematuria (23%), hypertension (15.3%), dispnea (15.3%), respectively. Serum complement C3 was low in all patients while one patient had both low serum complement C3 and C4. The patient who had hypocomplementemia (both C3 and C4) also had severe proteinuria and acute kidney injury. Renal biopsy was performed to this patient and diagnosed diffuse proliferative glomerulonephritis after renal biopsy. Conclusion: PIGN is observed with higher incidence in the developing countries in current era.  We detected an increase in the number of PIGN patients in a short period and we aimed to draw attention of pediatricians about PIGN patients with different clinical presentations.

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