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Chronic Kidney Disease, Hypokalemia, and Appendicular Mucocele in a 66-Year-Old Man

Appendicular mucocele (AM) is a rare and potentially malignant entity linked to obstructive dilatation of the appendix with an intraluminal accumulation of mucoid material. Most AM is asymptomatic or simulates acute appendicitis. We report an exceptional case of AM discovered in the face of hypokale...

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Autores principales: Mrabet, Sanda, Chaabouni, Yosr, Ben Hmida, Mohamed
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: SAGE Publications 2022
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9515528/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36154522
http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/15579883221125569
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description Appendicular mucocele (AM) is a rare and potentially malignant entity linked to obstructive dilatation of the appendix with an intraluminal accumulation of mucoid material. Most AM is asymptomatic or simulates acute appendicitis. We report an exceptional case of AM discovered in the face of hypokalemia and aggravation of chronic kidney disease (CKD) without diarrhea in an old man. Investigations led to the diagnosis of AM in its malignant form complicated by gelatinous ascites. We retained mucinous hypersecretion as the cause of hypokalemia and acute renal failure. Aggressive surgery and intraperitoneal chemotherapy corrected hydroelectrolyte imbalance.
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spelling pubmed-95155282022-09-29 Chronic Kidney Disease, Hypokalemia, and Appendicular Mucocele in a 66-Year-Old Man Mrabet, Sanda Chaabouni, Yosr Ben Hmida, Mohamed Am J Mens Health Case Report Appendicular mucocele (AM) is a rare and potentially malignant entity linked to obstructive dilatation of the appendix with an intraluminal accumulation of mucoid material. Most AM is asymptomatic or simulates acute appendicitis. We report an exceptional case of AM discovered in the face of hypokalemia and aggravation of chronic kidney disease (CKD) without diarrhea in an old man. Investigations led to the diagnosis of AM in its malignant form complicated by gelatinous ascites. We retained mucinous hypersecretion as the cause of hypokalemia and acute renal failure. Aggressive surgery and intraperitoneal chemotherapy corrected hydroelectrolyte imbalance. SAGE Publications 2022-09-25 /pmc/articles/PMC9515528/ /pubmed/36154522 http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/15579883221125569 Text en © The Author(s) 2022 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/This article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 License (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/) which permits non-commercial use, reproduction and distribution of the work without further permission provided the original work is attributed as specified on the SAGE and Open Access page (https://us.sagepub.com/en-us/nam/open-access-at-sage).
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Chronic Kidney Disease, Hypokalemia, and Appendicular Mucocele in a 66-Year-Old Man
title Chronic Kidney Disease, Hypokalemia, and Appendicular Mucocele in a 66-Year-Old Man
title_full Chronic Kidney Disease, Hypokalemia, and Appendicular Mucocele in a 66-Year-Old Man
title_fullStr Chronic Kidney Disease, Hypokalemia, and Appendicular Mucocele in a 66-Year-Old Man
title_full_unstemmed Chronic Kidney Disease, Hypokalemia, and Appendicular Mucocele in a 66-Year-Old Man
title_short Chronic Kidney Disease, Hypokalemia, and Appendicular Mucocele in a 66-Year-Old Man
title_sort chronic kidney disease, hypokalemia, and appendicular mucocele in a 66-year-old man
topic Case Report
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9515528/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36154522
http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/15579883221125569
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