[Renal venous thrombosis in infants of diabetic mothers (author's transl)].

Six cases of renal venous thrombosis in infants of diabetic mothers, out of a series of 61 infants under two months old affected of R.V.T. (9.8%), are reported. The clinical, metabolic and histopathological features of these cases are discussed, as well as the different etiological theories that exist in the literature. An etiopathogenic hypothesis that maintains a similarity with the theory that explains the origin of R.V.T. in classical cases, is suggested. Prophilactic attitudes in order to prevent R.V.T. by a control of diabetes in the pregnant and close control of the newborn in the 10 first days of life, are pointed out.