Macroscopic hematuria in children with autosomal dominant polycystic kidney disease — report from four European tertiary centers
Tomáš Seeman, Květa Bláhová, Filip Fencl, Ulrike John-Kroegel, Friederike Weigel, Terezie Šuláková, Ludmila Podracká, Janusz Feber · 2026
Read Macroscopic hematuria in children with autosomal dominant polycystic kidney disease — report from four European tertiary centers by Tomáš Seeman, Květa Bláhová, Filip Fencl, Ulrike John-Kroegel, Friederike Weigel, Terezie Šuláková, Ludmila Podracká, Janusz Feber (2026) in the Tower of Babel, a free online library of public-domain works preserved in clean, searchable text. No sign-up. The full text is served as a plain-text file at a predictable URL, where text is present: https://antarctic-labs.com/tower-of-babel/pmc-13152923.txt.
Description
Tomas Seeman and co-authors collect cases of visible blood in the urine among children with polycystic kidney disease at four European centers, in a study from 2026. In adults with this inherited condition such bleeding is common and linked to later high blood pressure. Whether the same warning applies in childhood was untested.
Records covered two hundred eighty nine children with a median age near ten. About seven percent had at least one bleeding episode, caused by a burst cyst, a urinary infection, or a stone. At last follow up, high blood pressure was notably more common in the children who had bled than in those who had not. The authors argue the episode should prompt closer blood pressure watch in young patients.
Catalog record
| CREATOR | Tomáš Seeman, Květa Bláhová, Filip Fencl, Ulrike John-Kroegel, Friederike Weigel, Terezie Šuláková, Ludmila Podracká, Janusz Feber |
|---|---|
| YEAR | 2026 |
| COLLECTION | PAPERS |
| FORMAT | TXT |
| FILE SIZE | 26 KB |
| VERSION | 1.0 |
| LICENSE | CC BY 4.0 |
| RIGHTS | CC BY |
| SOURCE | Europe PMC |