Intrathoracic Kidney in a Premature Infant

Shapira, Emmanuel; Fishel, Efraim; Levin, Saul

doi:10.1136/adc.40.209.86

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“…The youngest age recorded for the identification of an ectopic thoracic kidney was in a 13-day-old premature infant in Israel [ 7 ]; it has also been discovered in the elderly with a report of a 75-year-old woman, and the average age of reported cases was 41 years [ 8 ]. Our patient was 38 years old at the time of diagnosis.…”

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

Ekrikpo

Effa

Akpan

2013

Case Reports in Nephrology

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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.

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

Ekrikpo

Effa

Akpan

2013

Case Reports in Nephrology

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“…Other anomalies reported in congenital intrathoracic kidneys include: trisomy [22]; anencephaly [18]; adrenal ectopy [22]; acyanotic tetralogy [15]; cloacal exstrophy; sacral meningoceles; but terfly vertebrae; absent ribs; sequestrated lung, and herniation of gut [16,19]. Cases 4 and 6 show gut herniation, with lateral displace ment of the left kidney in case 6.…”

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