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01-12-2011 | Clinical Quiz
Failure to thrive and nephrolithiasis in a boy with congenital cyanotic heart anomaly—questions
Authors:
Velibor Tasic, Vladimir J. Lozanovski, Zoran Gucev, Nenad Blau, Hae Il Cheong, John A. Sayer
Published in:
Pediatric Nephrology
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Issue 12/2011
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Excerpt
A 3-year-old boy from Kosovo was referred to us for evaluation of failure to thrive and an episode of macroscopic hematuria. He was the son of healthy non-consanguineous parents. His past medical history was notable as he had been born with a cyanogenic heart anomaly (truncus arterious communis) which had been treated medically with furosemide and captopril until successful cardiac surgery, performed at 2 years of age. Following cardiac surgery, echocardiography with Doppler studies confirmed a successful repair, with no mixing of the arterial and venous blood. His cyanosis resolved and medical treatment was discontinued. Despite this apparently good outcome, he failed to thrive. …
