1. Acute renal failure followed by low back ache
- Author
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Mahesh Prasad, Virendra Chowdhury, Arjun Maitra, Rakesh Biswas, Nimish Sethiya, V K Bharadwaj, and Jyoti Valecha
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medicine.medical_specialty ,Creatinine ,medicine.diagnostic_test ,Nausea ,business.industry ,Metabolic acidosis ,General Medicine ,Anorexia ,urologic and male genital diseases ,medicine.disease ,Article ,Surgery ,chemistry.chemical_compound ,chemistry ,Oliguria ,Anesthesia ,medicine ,Vomiting ,Arterial blood ,Renal biopsy ,medicine.symptom ,business - Abstract
A 47-year-old man presented with a history of oliguria and uraemic symptoms such as anorexia, nausea and vomiting. His serum creatinine on admission was 8.5 mg/dl and his arterial blood gas revealed metabolic acidosis. He was enrolled for regular sessions of haemodialysis following which his symptoms improved remarkably and his serum creatinine returned to normal. A renal biopsy done at this time showed a moderate tubulo-interstitial nephritis with mild global glomerular sclerosis. The patient returned 1 month later with severe back ache and a computed tomography (CT) scan of the lumbosacral spine was undertaken …
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- 2009