Open AccessAcute Kidney Injury with Polyuria in a Patient with HIV
Author(s) -
Samuel A. Silver,
Robert C. Richardson
Publication year - 1970
Publication title -
canadian journal of general internal medicine
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2369-1778
pISSN - 1911-1606
DOI - 10.22374/cjgim.v10i1.23
Subject(s) - polyuria , medicine , acute kidney injury , kidney , human immunodeficiency virus (hiv) , creatinine , urine , urine output , intensive care medicine , urology , immunology , endocrinology , diabetes mellitus
We describe the case of a 30-year-old man with HIV with an elevated creatinine and three litres per day of urine output. Using this patient as a framework, we review a diagnostic approach to acute kidney injury with polyuria. This case emphasizes the importance of a complete diagnostic evaluation of acute kidney injury. Without this approach, it would have been easy to attribute the patient’s acute kidney injury to his HIV and necrotizing peri-anal infection, instead of the true life- threatening cause.