López-Santisteban M, Yanez-Salguero V, Ramírez IA, Díaz-Valle DJ, Rivas-Sevilla K

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ABSTRACT

Background: epidemiological data about renal disease in pediatric patients are limited worldwide. In Honduras updated information on this topic is scant.
Objective: determine the epidemiology and demography of care at the outpatient Pediatric Nephrology service of the University Hospital in Tegucigalpa, Honduras in the period 2011-2015.
Methods: a descriptive retrospective study was conducted of a universe of 1 614 records of patients cared for at the outpatient Pediatric Nephrology service. The study sample was composed of 1 141 records, and the confidence interval was 97 %. Univariate and bivariate analysis of the data was based on frequency and central tendency measurements using the software EPI-INFO 7.2 and Microsoft Office Excel 2013.
Results: the conditions cared for showed the following prevalence: urinary tract infection 516 (34.4 %), followed by nephro-urological malformation 413 (26.5 %) and glomerular disease 298 (19.9 %). Of the total urinary tract infections diagnosed, 49.8 % occurred in children under five years of age, 67.1 % of whom were female. It was also found that 43 (8.3 %) of these patients had some type of congenital malformation, mainly congenital defects of the renal pelvis and congenital ureteral malformations.
Conclusions: urinary tract infections and nephro-urological malformations are the most frequent nephropathies at the outpatient Pediatric Nephrology service of the most important hospital in the country, with a predominance of the female sex. The main nephro-urological malformations were congenital malformations and hydronephrosis.