Bilateral Hydronephrosis From Retroperitoneal Fibrosis

Unusual cases of hydronephrosis with retroperitoneal fibrosis: mystery revealed

Department of Nephrology and Hypertension, Glickman Urological and Kidney Institute, Cleveland Clinic, Cleveland, OH, USA, Department of Anatomic Pathology, Pathology Laboratory and Medicine Institute, Cleveland Clinic, Cleveland, OH, USA, Department of Internal Medicine, Medicine Institute, Cleveland Clinic, Cleveland, OH, USA and Department of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine, Respiratory...

Bilateral Hydronephrosis and Cystitis Resulting from

Ketamine associated urinary dysfunction has become increasingly more common worldwide. Point-of-care ultrasound (POCUS) is an established modality for diagnosing hydronephrosis in the emergency department. We describe a case of a young male ketamine abuser with severe urinary urgency and frequency in which POCUS performed by the emergency physician demonstrated bilateral hydronephrosis and a fo...

Bilateral Hydronephrosis and Cystitis Resulting from Chronic Ketamine Abuse

Idiopathic retroperitoneal fibrosis.

it may be speculated that they accounted for the repeated episodes of sudden pain and subsequent fever and hyperbilirubinaemia for which no other cause could be found. The pathogenesis ofthe infarcts is quite unknown. Our patient died a relatively sudden cardiopulmonary death almost 2 years after HMR was diagnosed. She had proven coronary artery disease but undoubtedly the chronic anaemia contr...

Tamoxifen for retroperitoneal fibrosis.

Retroperitoneal fibrosis, either idiopathic or associated with aortic inflammatory aneurysm, is a chronic fibrotic disease that causes progressive obstruction of ureters and vessels around the lower abdominal aorta. Treatment is often difficult (surgery) or hazardous (steroids). We report a case of a woman with retroperitoneal fibrosis associated with aortic inflammatory aneurysm, who was succe...