Inside Pediatrics Spring/Summer 2024

NEW HOPE FOR NEONATES WITH CONGENITAL KIDNEY DISEASE

T here was a time when conventional wisdom held that babies with congenital kidney disease (CKD) and severe respiratory failure couldn’t survive. Thanks to a study led by Children’s of Alabama, that’s changing. Four children are thriving today due to the efforts of the Children’s nephrology team, who, almost a decade ago, began the journey toward improving outcomes in neonates with CKD by adapting the Aquadex machine, a small extracorporeal circuit used for adults with heart failure. Now, in a recently published study, the team shows its latest findings, which reveal that there is hope for these neonates.

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