Intrathoracic Kidney in a Premature Infant

Intrathoracic Kidney in a Premature Infant.

Though ectopia of the kidney is a common anomaly (Campbell, 1951) displacement is usually downwards towards the pelvis, or medially. Upward displacement into the thoracic cavity is a much rarer finding. Ashley and Mostofi (1960), in a review of some quarter of a million necropsies, did not find a single case of thoracic kidney. The present report is of interest because of the diagnosis of this ...

INTRATHORACIC KIDNEY: A CT-SCANNING VIEW

We report a patient who was admitted to the department of medicine with palpitation, dyspnea and left flank pain, Chest X-ray revealed a mass in the left lung. The lesion was evaluated as a pulmonary tumor, with a high suspicion of malignancy. Intravenous urography, sonography, and CTscanning revealed a thoracic kidney at the location previously thought to be a lung mass. This is the firs...

Silent Tachypnoea in a Neonate: A Rare Presentation of Right Side Bochdalek Hernia with Intrathoracic Kidney

Congenital diaphragmatic hernia (CDH) is a rare condition. The reported incidence of intrathoracic renal ectopia due to CDH is also rare. A right-sided thoracic kidney is much less common due to the location of the liver. Isolated intrathoracic kidney is usually asymptomatic and diagnosed incidentally on chest imaging. The authors report on a 21days old female infant with late-presenting right ...

Congenital intrathoracic kidney.

Involving the Parents in Caring for Hospitalized Premature Infant in the NICU: A qualitative study

Introduction: Nurses have important role in providing emotional support, decreasing stress and educating the parents to involve them in care of premature infant. The aim of this study was discovering the NICU Nurses’ perception of involving the parents in care of infants. Methods: This qualitative study was carried out based on interpretative phenomenological approach.  The study setting was th...