Published online July 1, 2008
PEDIATRICS Vol. 122 No. 1 July 2008, pp. 223-224 (doi:10.1542/peds.2008-0943)
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LETTER TO THE EDITOR

Myocardial Infarction in Chronic Kidney Disease

Tracy E. Hunley, MD
Valentina Kon, MD
Kathy Jabs, MD
Division of Pediatric Nephrology
Monroe Carell Jr Children's Hospital
Vanderbilt University
Nashville, TN 37232-2584

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To the Editor.—

Lane and Ben-Shachar1 recently reported myocardial infarction (MI) in adolescents with normal cardiac anatomy. Here we describe a patient with childhood-onset chronic kidney disease (CKD) who suffered MI at 22 years of age. The patient's CKD resulted from meningococcemia at 6 years of age. Renal transplantation at the age of 9 years resulted in primary nonfunction, the kidney was removed, and peritoneal dialysis was continued. At 17 years, a computed tomography scan incidentally . . . [Full Text of this Article]