Spontaneous Popliteal Artery Occlusion Complicating Childhood Nephrotic Syndrome

Abstract

Summary: Spontancous popliteal artery occlusion occurring in a nine-vear old Nigerian girl with quartan malarial nephrotic syndrome during a relatively quiescent stage of the syndrome is reported. At the time this vascular accident occurred none of the recognized predis posing factors (recent femoral venepuncture, and/or administration of corti costeroids and diuretics) existed. It is therefore suggested that infection, asso ciated with the thrombo-embolic potentialities in patients with nephrotic syndrome, may be factors in the development of this rare complication in the present case.