Extra-Renal Azotaemia

Neonatal extra-renal Wilm's tumour.

A 76-year-old woman with pre-renal azotaemia and Morgagni’s hernia

A 76-year-old woman was evaluated for a 1-month history of diarrhoea and vomiting (10 episodes a day). On admission, serum creatinine was 9 mg/dL. Chest radiography revealed an enlarged right mediastinum containing air (Figure 1). Thoracic computed tomographic (CT) scans showed a Morgagni’s hernia, characterized by an anteromedial diaphragmatic defect (64 × 25 mm), with herniation of the transv...

The burr red cell and azotaemia.

In 1949 Schwartz and Motto described a new poikilocyte which they termed a " burr cell." They characterized it as " a peculiar red cell, measuring about 7.5 , or less in diameter, and having one or more large spiny projections along its periphery." They found it most often in azotaemia (55 of 75 cases in which the non-protein nitrogen exceeded 70 mg. %), and occasionally in gastric carcinoma an...

[Renal autotransplantation and extra-corporeal surgery].

Renal autotransplantation with/without extra-corporeal surgery was performed in 53 patients between September, 1975 and december, 1987. Original disease was obstructive disease of the upper urinary tract in 25 patients, renovascular hypertension and renal vascular disease in 13, renal calculous disease in 12 and renal cell carcinoma in 3. Ten of the 53 patients had solitary kidneys. Three patie...

Introduction to "Extra-Renal Complications of Cystinosis".

Cystinosis is one of the earliest described inborn errors of metabolism, first documented in 1903. 1 It is inherited as an autosomal recessive condition and presents as a broader phenotype than merely the initial renal Fanconi syndrome, one that affects different organ systems as the patient ages. Understanding of this pan-tissue and pan-organ disease has evolved over the past century, and is t...