Ectopic Thoracic Kidney and End-Stage Renal Disease in a 38-Year-Old Nigerian

This patient is a 38-year-old housewife who presented with a one-month history of difficulty, in breathing, chest pain and bilateral leg swelling and had a blood pressure of 260/150 mmHg, features of malignant hypertension and hypertensive heart disease. Chest CT scan revealed a chest location of th...

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Autores principales: Ekrikpo, U. E., Effa, E. E., Akpan, E. E.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Hindawi Publishing Corporation 2013
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3914239/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24527243
http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2013/158494
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description This patient is a 38-year-old housewife who presented with a one-month history of difficulty, in breathing, chest pain and bilateral leg swelling and had a blood pressure of 260/150 mmHg, features of malignant hypertension and hypertensive heart disease. Chest CT scan revealed a chest location of the left kidney. She also had elevated serum urea and creatinine and proteinuria (++). The right kidney was normally located with loss of corticomedullary differentiation. She is on maintenance haemodialysis and is being worked up for possible left nephrectomy.
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spelling pubmed-39142392014-02-13 Ectopic Thoracic Kidney and End-Stage Renal Disease in a 38-Year-Old Nigerian Ekrikpo, U. E. Effa, E. E. Akpan, E. E. Case Rep Nephrol Case Report This patient is a 38-year-old housewife who presented with a one-month history of difficulty, in breathing, chest pain and bilateral leg swelling and had a blood pressure of 260/150 mmHg, features of malignant hypertension and hypertensive heart disease. Chest CT scan revealed a chest location of the left kidney. She also had elevated serum urea and creatinine and proteinuria (++). The right kidney was normally located with loss of corticomedullary differentiation. She is on maintenance haemodialysis and is being worked up for possible left nephrectomy. Hindawi Publishing Corporation 2013 2013-05-02 /pmc/articles/PMC3914239/ /pubmed/24527243 http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2013/158494 Text en Copyright © 2013 U. E. Ekrikpo et al. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/ This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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Ectopic Thoracic Kidney and End-Stage Renal Disease in a 38-Year-Old Nigerian
title Ectopic Thoracic Kidney and End-Stage Renal Disease in a 38-Year-Old Nigerian
title_full Ectopic Thoracic Kidney and End-Stage Renal Disease in a 38-Year-Old Nigerian
title_fullStr Ectopic Thoracic Kidney and End-Stage Renal Disease in a 38-Year-Old Nigerian
title_full_unstemmed Ectopic Thoracic Kidney and End-Stage Renal Disease in a 38-Year-Old Nigerian
title_short Ectopic Thoracic Kidney and End-Stage Renal Disease in a 38-Year-Old Nigerian
title_sort ectopic thoracic kidney and end-stage renal disease in a 38-year-old nigerian
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3914239/
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