A patient presents in your pediatric office with her 5 yo son. She reports that he recently had a cold with a fever and still doesn’t look right after several days and has reduced micturition. He has obvious noticeable as puffiness around the eyes, and upon examination you find that he has a taut belly, and swelling of the hands and feet, which you interpret as generalized edema, or anascara.
You run some tests and find that he has hypoalbuminemia and proteinuria.
What is your diagnosis? And explain the bold type symptoms. (2pts)
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Tayler
April 26, 2015 at 9:18 am
Pediatric Nephrotic Syndrome
* reduced micturition~ decrease in urine
*anascara~ general swelling in the body, considered massive edema.
*hypoalbuminemia~ low albumin, less than 3.4
*proteinuria~ urine has an abnormal amount of protein in it
downhousesoftware
April 26, 2015 at 3:21 pm
points
Jennifer
April 26, 2015 at 6:38 pm
Nice one!
downhousesoftware
April 26, 2015 at 7:08 pm
ps – explain the edema.
Nicki Tschantz
April 27, 2015 at 1:16 pm
It’s pediatric pnephritis
decrease in urin, swelling of the body, low albumin level