I'm sure you've excluded it Kylie but you don't mention it so I thought I
would just suggest checking for congenital dislocation of her hip- a cousin
had that and it wasn't picked up until she was seen to throw her ;leg out
with each step.(Unless that's what hemihypertrophy is, in which case I am
going to feel very stupid.)
Monica
----- Original Message -----
From: Kylie Carberry
To: [email protected]
Sent: Tuesday, September 13, 2005 1:43 PM
Subject: [ozmidwifery] hemihypertrophy question
Hi Everyone,
I was in need of some information in regard to my 18 month old daughter,
Poppy, and although I have a doctors appt it is not until tomorrow afternoon
and I thought someone on this list may have some info on what I am looking
for...
Poppy was diagnosed with urinary reflux at about seven weeks following a
renal scan. The scan was recommended as I had a two vessel cord which was
apparent at my 18 week scan during pregnancy. After several UTI's and
assciated kidney infections (despite antib's), she has been booked in for
surgery to correct the 'faulty' ureters that are causing the reflux.
Since about 10 months old when she began to walk around furniture we have
noticed Poppy kind of limps...she kind of throws her left leg out as she is
walking. We thought we'd wait until walking was fully established until
worrying - after all she has one thing wrong and what parent wants to think
there could be something else. Anyway she has now been walking unaided for
about 2 months and I was starting to worry because of the still obvious
limp she has. I laid her down the other day and when I put her legs out in
front was astonished that the right is actually 2 cm longer than the left.
It all made sense and we couldn't believe we overlooked it. Whilst awaiting
for xrays to come back I have done some internet research and I believe you
call this condition hemihypertrophy. Now I suddenly panicked when I saw
that this could be related to a kidney cancer called Wilms' tumor. My
initial panic subsided and I began to think if she did have this Wilms
surely they would have picked it up somewhere over the last year and a half
amidst the numerous nuclear kidney scans and ultrasounds she has had. I am
praying that I am right and it is just a case of one leg being longer for
growth reasons, but does anyone think it could be related to the urinary
problem? Could they have overlooked it during all of the tests?
Any info or thoughts would be truly appreciated...
best wishes
Kylie Carberry
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