Space:CCHMC Pediatric SurgeryAuthor: Dr. Pramod P. Reddy, MD, of Cincinnati Children’s answers a question about determining a pediatric patient's kidney health
Published: 2022-08-23
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Dr. Pramod P. Reddy, MD, of Cincinnati Children’s answers a question about determining a pediatric patient's kidney health
Speaker: Dr. Pramod P. Reddy, MD, of Cincinnati Children’s answers a question about determining a pediatric patient's kidney health
We have some questions that have already been submitted to us ahead of time by families. Um, one of the questions was, how do we predict what's going on in a child's, um, kidney health? And, uh, unfortunately, there's no easy way. We can't look at a child and tell you how they're doing. We can look at their growth, and if they're not growing well, then we can say we need to test their kidney function and see what's going on. So, maintaining a growth, you know, the child's growth chart that your pediatricians do and we do every time you come to visit us. Measuring the kidney function actually is the best way of predicting how a child's doing, and we can only do that with blood tests.
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