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Guided by the theory of "kidney generates marrow", the study elaborates the viewpoint that the route of Yin Heel Channel (阴跷脉) is consistent with the "kidney-marrow-brain" axis from the perspective of the circulation of the meridians and the relationship between the zang-fu organs. Accordingly, it is believed that disease of Yin Heel Channel and dysfunction of the "kidney-marrow-brain" axis are the core pathogenesis of children enuresis, and it is elaborated from the following three major aspects, firstly, insufficient kidney essence, dysfunction of the "kidney-marrow-brain" axis, secondly, disease of Yin Heel Channel and deficiency and cold in lower jiao, and thirdly, disease of Yin Heel Channel and loss of nourishment of Chong Vessel. It is proposed to use the mode of "firstly needle, secondly moxibustion, and lastly consolidation" to treat children enuresis. Needle is to adjust yin and yang, warm yang and tonify kidney, and wake up the brain and open the orifices. The acupoints in Yin Heel Channel such as Zhaohai (KI 6), Jiaoxin (KI 8) and confluence points of the eight extraordinary vessels such as Waiguan (TE 5), Zulinqi (GB 41) are used, together with Baihui (GV 20), Yintang (EX-HN 3), Guanyuan (CV 4), Qixue (KI 13), Dazhong (KI 4). Moxibustion is to reinforce healthy qi and warm yang, bank up the root and consolidate the original qi by moxibustion at Shenque (CV 8), Mingmen (GV 4), and Xuanshu (GV 5). Consolidation is to use acupoints application to consolidate the therapeutic effect, and Guanyuan (CV 4) & Pangguangshu (BL 28), Qihai (CV 6) & Zhishi (BL 52), and Shenque (CV 8) & Ciliao (BL 32) are commonly used as the three groups of acupoints to warm the kidney and stop collapse, regulate and tonify the qi and blood.
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Objective To explore the clinical and pathological features, treatment, and prognosis of capillary proliferative purpura nephritis (DEP-HSPN) in children.MethodsThe clinical data of 19 children diagnosed with DEP-HSPN were retrospectively analysis. Fifty-five children diagnosed with HSPN by renal biopsy were randomly selected as control group. ResultsThe average age was 10.6±2.6 years old, and the average course of disease were 19.4±7.4 days before renal biopsy in 19 children with DEP-HSPN (14 males and 5 females) who make up 3.92% of anaphylactic purpura nephritis children conifrmed by renal biopsy in the same period. In these 19 children, there were 10 cases having nephrotic syndrome and 9 case having hematuria and proteinuria type, all of whom were received immunosuppressive therapy. Finally, 14 cases achieved completely remission and 5 cases had partly remission. All of their classiifcations of renal pathology wereⅢb levels, accompanied with 6.38% to 36.36% of crescents. Compared with 55 age and sex matched children with renal pathology classiifcation ofⅢb, the DEP-HSPN children had shorter disease course, higher level of proteinuria, and lower pathological score of chronic renal injury (P all?0.05). There was similar percentage of crescent between two groups.ConclusionsChildren with DEP-HSPN usually have rapid onset, severe clinical manifestations, more active lesions and less chronic lesions. There is no evidence that the capillary proliferative lesion is a risk factor in the prognosis of HSPN so far.
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Objective To assess the validity of the Oxford classification for pediatric patients with primary IgA nephropathy (IgAN) and to analyze the correlations between clinical characteristics at time of biopsy and the Oxford classification,which identified four definitive histological features:mesangial hypereellularity,endocapillary proliferation,segmental sclerosis and tubular atrophy/interstitial fibrosis.Methods Clinical and pathological characteristics of 35 children with primary IgAN were analyzed.The scoring sheet was based on the Oxford classification of IgAN,and four pathological variables,namely mesangial hypercellularity (M),endocapillary proliferation (E),segmental sclerosis (S),and tubular atrophy/interstitial fibrosis (T) were assessed.A total of 35 children with IgAN were grouped according to the scores(M,E,S,T):the M0 and M1 group,E0 and E1 group,S0 and S1 group,T0 and T1/T2 group.These groups were compared in terms of estimated glomeralar filtration rate (eGFR),mean artery pressure (MAP) and proteinuria at time of biopsy.Results We found that the Oxford classification was significantly negatively correlated with eGFR (Pearson's correlation coefficient r =-0.48).However,the Oxford classification was shown to be positively associated with initial proteinuria per day(Pearson's correlation coefficient r =0.35).The M,E,S,T scores were strongly associated with proteinuria at biopsy (P < 0.05),and the lesion S was not correlated with eGFR (P > 0.05).The lesion T was significantly associated with eGFR (P =0.001) and MAP (P =0.03) at biopsy.Conclusion We confirmed that the Oxford classification of IgA nephropathy was valid for children.In addition,our study indicated that the four histological lesions M,E,S and T were significantly associated with clinical features.