BACKGROUND: To evaluate if @entity3025 ( @entity3025 ) contralateral to the @entity15740 can interfere with the compensatory @entity8 . METHODS: Twenty-seven @entity1 (17 males, 10 females) with @entity15740 ( @entity15740 ) (14 on the right, 13 on the left) have been treated at the Nephrology Unit of the Pediatric Department of the University of Verona from birth up to the second year of life. All these @entity1 were diagnosed as having @entity15740 by prenatal ultrasonography. Seven @entity1 (4 males and 3 females) had @entity3025 (5 monolateral, 2 bilateral), diagnosed at the end of the first month of life. After diagnosis children underwent antibiotic prophylaxis with @entity3405 compounds at low doses. Four @entity1 underwent a surgical correction of @entity3025 associated with nephrectomy within the second year of life. The remaining 3 @entity1 were treated with antibiotic prophylaxis; a progressive resolution or downgrading of reflux grade took place respectively in 1 and in 2 of them. Only 6 @entity1 with @entity15740 underwent nephrectomy. @entity8 was studied by serial echographic measurements of the @entity8 (performed at birth, at 6 months, and at 2 years of life). RESULTS: Renal length was 5.68+/-1.24 cm, 6.72+/-0.88 cm, 8.56+/-1.27 cm in @entity1 without @entity3025 , respectively at birth, 6 months and 2 years of life. Renal length was 4.65+/-0.63 cm, 6.70+/-0.64 cm, 7.07+/-1.14 cm in @entity1 with @entity3025 , respectively at birth, 6 months and 2 years of life. A statistically significant difference was observed between the two groups at birth (p<0.05) and at 2 years of life (p<0.01). CONCLUSIONS: The conclusion is that @entity3025 contralateral to the @entity15740 is associated with small kidneys and reduced renal growth both at birth and at 2 years of life.

@entity15740 and contralateral XXXX . @entity8 .

@entity1 :: ('9606', 'Species') :: ['children', 'patients'] @entity8 :: ('MESH:D007674', 'Disease') :: ['longitudinal renal lenght', 'Renal growth', 'renal hypertrophy'] @entity3405 :: ('CHEBI:35627', 'Chemical') :: ['beta-lactam'] @entity15740 :: ('MESH:D021782', 'Disease') :: ['MDK', 'multicystic dysplastic kidney'] @entity3025 :: ('MESH:D014718', 'Disease') :: ['VUR', 'vesicoureteral reflux']
@entity3025 :: (MESH:D014718,Disease) :: ['vesicoureteral reflux']
