Jose Daniel Juarez-Villa, Iván Zepeda-Quiroz, Sebastián Toledo-Ramírez, Victor Hugo Gomez-Johnson, Francisco Pérez-Allende, Brian Ricardo Garibay-Vega, Francisco E Rodríguez Castellanos, Bernardo Moguel-González, Edgar Garcia-Cruz, Salvador Lopez-Gil
BACKGROUND: The association between congenital heart disease and chronic kidney disease is well known. Various mechanisms of kidney damage associated with congenital heart disease have been established. The etiology of kidneydisease has commonly been considered to be secondary to focal segmental glomerulosclerosis (FSGS), however, this has only been demonstrated in case reports and not in observational or clinical trials. AIM: To identify baseline and clinical characteristics, as well as the findings in kidney biopsies of patients with congenital heart disease in our hospital...
March 25, 2024: World Journal of Nephrology