Sunday, February 17, 2008

How to improve children after renal transplantation obstacles to the growth?

Children, owing to their physiological characteristics, the effect of renal transplantation can not be solely on the basis of whether good or bad the symptoms of uremia and dialysis to evaluate whether there is a need, but also for the after renal transplantation can guarantee the child's body in the
That good growth and development. Most of the children after renal transplantation faster than the growth and development of dialysis treatment must be quick, but these children in adult height is still lower than its peers, as short stature
May cause these children back into society of difficulties, such as the impact of school-age children may go to school or study, adolescent children may be a sense of inferiority in the face of heterosexual affect the normal contacts with the opposite sex,
Adults may be affected marriage, employment or receive driving licence.
Affected children after renal transplantation growth factors: age at the time of transplantation, steroid hormones and the use of the transplanted kidney function. On the impact of age renal transplantation, usually in the 7-year-old following renal transplantation
After growth will be significantly accelerated, and age greater than 12 years of age after renal transplantation Although renal transplantation good, but the growth rate is limited. It is therefore in children after renal transplantation to the growth and development of faster, and should
As early as the age when small renal transplantation. On the use of steroids, as steroids on the secretion of growth hormone and sex hormones inhibit puberty, it will affect the growth and development of children,
So for children after renal transplantation of steroids in small doses to maintain or change overnight delivery. Research shows that children are suspended in steroid hormone treatment, the growth has excellent efficiency
Fruit, but at the same time that 30% of rejection reaction, it is necessary to consider the issue.
Recently abroad active in promoting the use of renal transplantation after growth hormone therapy, but there are growth hormone activated T cells role in the use of growth hormone after renal transplantation in children 27% of the patients in
Rejection of renal dysfunction, it is not a negative reaction from the risk of acute rejection.

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