Article Text
Acute paediatrics
Adenovirus associated haematuria
Abstract
Adenovirus is a common respiratory virus in children and is known to cause acute haemorrhagic cystitis, particularly in the immunosuppressed. In immunocompetent children with adenoviral infection the incidence of haematuria was 18.6%, with 2.4% of these children having macroscopic haematuria and upper tract involvement.
- adenovirus
- haematuria
- glomerulonephritis