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

U. E. Ekrikpo; E. E. Effa; E. E. Akpan

doi:10.1155/2013/158494

Case Reports in Nephrology (Jan 2013)

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

U. E. Ekrikpo,
E. E. Effa,
E. E. Akpan

Affiliations

U. E. Ekrikpo: Department of Internal Medicine, University of Uyo Teaching Hospital, PMB 1136, Uyo, Nigeria
E. E. Effa: Department of Internal Medicine, University of Calabar Teaching Hospital, PMB 1278, Calabar, Nigeria
E. E. Akpan: Department of Internal Medicine, University of Uyo Teaching Hospital, PMB 1136, Uyo, Nigeria

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1155/2013/158494
Journal volume & issue: Vol. 2013

Abstract

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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.

Published in Case Reports in Nephrology

ISSN: 2090-6641 (Print); 2090-665X (Online)
Publisher: Hindawi Limited
Country of publisher: United Kingdom
LCC subjects: Medicine: Internal medicine: Specialties of internal medicine: Diseases of the genitourinary system. Urology
Website: https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/journal/1731

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