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

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

Author(s) -

Udeme E. Ekrikpo,

Emmanuel Effa,

Effiong Ekong Akpan

Publication year - 2013

Publication title -

case reports in nephrology

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

eISSN - 2090-6641

pISSN - 2090-665X

DOI - 10.1155/2013/158494

Subject(s) - medicine , nephrectomy , kidney , blood pressure , creatinine , proteinuria , kidney disease , surgery , renal function , urology , cardiology

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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