Gunes Tamer, Akcakus Mustafa, Dusunsel Ruhan, Cetin Neside, Poyrazoglu Hakan
Department of Paediatrics, Division of Neonatology, Faculty of Medicine, University of Erciyes, 38039 Kayseri, Turkey.
Eur J Pediatr. 2002 Nov;161(11):614-5. doi: 10.1007/s00431-002-1047-0. Epub 2002 Sep 10.
The syndrome of haemolysis, elevated liver enzymes and low platelet count (HELLP syndrome) is a severe form of pre-eclampsia and eclampsia associated with poor maternal and neonatal outcome. We report here the case of an infant born to a mother with HELLP syndrome. The infant was initially diagnosed as having nephrotic syndrome but after a follow-up period of 25 days proteinuria and oedema had disappeared.
to our knowledge, transient proteinuria with maternal HELLP syndrome has not been previously described in the literature.