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. 2015 Nov 30;4(4):120-6.
doi: 10.12861/jrip.2015.26. eCollection 2015.

Congenital anomalies of kidney and upper urinary tract in children with congenital hypothyroidism; a case-control study

Parsa Yousefichaijan  1 , Fatemeh Dorreh  2 , Mohammad Rafeie  3 , Mojtaba Sharafkhah  4 , Fatemeh Safi  5 , Mohammad Amiri  6 , Mohsen Ebrahimimonfared  7
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Congenital anomalies of kidney and upper urinary tract in children with congenital hypothyroidism; a case-control study

Parsa Yousefichaijan et al. J Renal Inj Prev. .

Abstract

Introduction: Congenital hypothyroidism (CH) may be significantly associated with congenital malformations. However, there is little evidence on the relationship between renal and urinary tract anomalies and CH.

Objectives: The aim of this study was to compare the renal and upper urinary tract anomalies in children with and without primary CH (PCH).

Patients and methods: This case-control study was conducted on 200 children aged 3 months to 1 year, referring to Amir-Kabir hospital, Arak, Iran. One hundred children with PCH, as the case group, and 100 children without CH, as the control group, were selected. For all children, ultrasonography and other diagnostic measures (if necessary) were performed to evaluate renal and upper urinary tract anomalies (ureter and bladder).

Results: The frequency of renal and upper urinary tract anomalies among 43 children with primary CH, with 83 cases (72.8%), was significantly higher than the frequency of anomalies among the 19 children in the control group, with 31 cases (27.1%) (OR = 3; CI 95%: 1.6-5.4; P = 0.001). Among the anomalies studied, only the differences in frequency of uretero-pelvic junction obstruction (UPJO) (OR = 6; CI 95%: 1.3-28; P = 0.018) and hydronephrosis (OR = 22; CI 95%: 5-95; P = 0.001) was significant between the two groups.

Conclusion: Our study demonstrated that PCH is significantly associated with the frequency of congenital anomalies of the kidneys and upper urinary tracts. However, further studies are recommended to determine the necessity of conducting screening programs for anomalies of the kidneys and urinary tract in children with CH at birth.

Keywords: Congenital abnormalities; Congenital hypothyroidism; Kidney; Urinary tract.

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