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http://www.medscape.com/viewarticle/538898
Researchers looked into the risks from various sports to children and adolescents with a single kidney and found that cycling, not football as might be expected, poses the greatest risk [ 1 ]. However, these injuries in the setting even of contact sports rank far behind those to the brain, spinal cord, or heart, the authors say.
"We think that restriction of participation of a child or adolescent from contact or collision sports just because they only have a single kidney is probably unwarranted," Dr Matthew M Grinsell (University of Virginia, Charlottesville) concluded.
Their findings were presented at Renal Week 2005.
By far the most common cause of kidney injury was motor-vehicle accidents, ranging from 38% to 100% of kidney injuries, depending on the study, compared with 0% to 29% related to sports. One study published in 2003 estimated the incidence of sports-related kidney injury to be 6.9 injuries per million children per year [ 2 ]; catastrophic injuries requiring removal of the kidney were estimated at 0.4 injuries per million children per year.
However, compared with kidney injuries, a review of other studies suggested that sports of all kinds are far more likely to cause catastrophic injury to other organs that "we also only have one of," Grinsell pointed out, including the brain, spinal cord, and heart?specifically commotio cordis, the abrupt stop of the heart after blunt trauma such as being hit by a baseball in the chest.
boards a little slow on Mondays
http://www.medscape.com/viewarticle/538898
Researchers looked into the risks from various sports to children and adolescents with a single kidney and found that cycling, not football as might be expected, poses the greatest risk [ 1 ]. However, these injuries in the setting even of contact sports rank far behind those to the brain, spinal cord, or heart, the authors say.
"We think that restriction of participation of a child or adolescent from contact or collision sports just because they only have a single kidney is probably unwarranted," Dr Matthew M Grinsell (University of Virginia, Charlottesville) concluded.
Their findings were presented at Renal Week 2005.
By far the most common cause of kidney injury was motor-vehicle accidents, ranging from 38% to 100% of kidney injuries, depending on the study, compared with 0% to 29% related to sports. One study published in 2003 estimated the incidence of sports-related kidney injury to be 6.9 injuries per million children per year [ 2 ]; catastrophic injuries requiring removal of the kidney were estimated at 0.4 injuries per million children per year.
However, compared with kidney injuries, a review of other studies suggested that sports of all kinds are far more likely to cause catastrophic injury to other organs that "we also only have one of," Grinsell pointed out, including the brain, spinal cord, and heart?specifically commotio cordis, the abrupt stop of the heart after blunt trauma such as being hit by a baseball in the chest.
