Some Renal Abnormalities

Renal failure with skeletal abnormalities.

Accepted 15 September 1995 A 40-year-old man presented with complaints of persistent vomiting for six months, periorbital puffiness for four months, ankle swelling for one month and chest pain for three days. He was apparently asymptomatic prior to the onset of these symptoms. He had experienced persistent vomiting two to three times a day, which was non-projectile and non-bilious with no const...

Retinal abnormalities characteristic of inherited renal disease.

Many inherited renal diseases have retinal features that are helpful diagnostically. These include coloboma, drusen, atrophy and pigmentation (retinitis pigmentosa), hamartoma, vascular anomalies, and crystals. Retinal abnormalities occur because the kidney and retina share developmental pathways and structural features including basement membrane collagen IV protomer composition and their vasc...

Auditory abnormalities associated with unilateral renal agenesis.

OBJECTIVE To evaluate the relationship between unilateral renal agenesis and auditory abnormality, and to determine the clinical spectrum of hearing impairment in such patients. METHODS Seventy-five children with unilateral renal agenesis underwent auditory examinations. The subjects comprised 35 males and 40 females. Fourteen females had mullerian abnormalities. Another 75 schoolchildren wit...

Systemic lupus erythematosus without clinical renal abnormalities.

RENAL ABNORMALITIES ON ANTENATAL SCAN Supporting information

In males with posterior urethral valves diagnosed antenatally, can intrauterine drainage procedures provide benefit? A review on posterior urethral valves (PUV) (Dinneen, 1996) states: “PUV may be one of the conditions suitable for intrauterine intervention, but the timing and type of intervention has yet to be determined”. It is possible that renal dysplasia may be irreversible by the time it ...