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Four patients developed miliary tuberculosis while undergoing chronic hemodialysis. Two patients had diabetes mellitus. Three of the four patients were hemodialyzed 18--24 months prior to the onset of symptoms. Signs and symptoms included prolonged fever, pleural effusion, pericarditis with pericardial effusion, abdominal pain, weight loss, and ascites. All patients were PPD negative and without historical or radiographic evidence of latent tuberculosis. Disseminated tuberculosis was proven at autopsy in three patients. M. tuberculosis was eventually recovered from pleural fluid and urine in the fourth patient. The immune deficiencies of chronic renal failure and diabetes mellitus are suspected predisposing factors to the development of miliary tuberculosis in these patients.
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PMID:Unusual presentation of tuberculosis in chronic hemodialysis patients. 89 Oct 49

In seven patients with chronic renal failure in an advanced stage 17 episodes of upper abdominal pain, hypertension, vomiting and (in some of them) coma occurred during peritoneal dialysis with sorbitol-containing dialysate. The signs recurred in some of the patients but did not when glucose-containing dialysate of otherwise identical composition was used. Very high levels of sorbitol in CSF and serum were measured in the comatose patients. The precipitating factor is probably a reduced metabolic breakdown of sorbitol in renal failure with preferential intracellular deposition of sorbitol and subsequent cellular oedema. To avoid this dangerous reaction it is necessary to use glucose instead of sorbitol in peritoneal dialysates, despite the technical problems of sterilisation. Where this is not possible, glucose should be added in order to reduce the sorbitol concentration in the dialysate to less than 15g/l.
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PMID:[Severe side-effects during peritoneal dialysis caused by sorbitol-containing dialysate (author's transl)]. 114 25

The cases are reported of five children with chronic renal failure who underwent gastrocystoplasty for a variety of urological disorders. Gastrocystoplasty comprises the transplantation of a vascularised segment of stomach to the bladder to form an augmented neobladder. The patients had gastrointestinal complications after the operation, including considerable weight loss in all five patients, accompanied by marked failure to thrive in four of the five patients, and food aversion, feeding intolerance, dumping syndrome, delayed gastric emptying, and oesophagitis in two patients. Three of the five patients developed severe abdominal pain and haemorrhagic cystitis secondary to gastric acid secretion in the neobladder from the transplanted gastric pedicle. Nutritional and pharmacological interventions were used to manage the gastrointestinal problems. Explanations are offered for the pathophysiology of the observed complications of gastrocystoplasty. It is believed that the use of this procedure in infants and children, particularly those with chronic renal failure and uraemia, warrants caution until successful long term follow up and experience with this procedure have been reported.
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PMID:Gastrointestinal complications of gastrocystoplasty. 144 27

A 75-year-old man initially complained of pollakiuria and low abdominal pain, and died of massive bleeding from an exacerbated gastric ulcer. The diagnosis of primary cardiac lymphoma was made postmortem. The tumor involved only the epicardium and myocardium, which met the criteria of primary cardiac lymphoma as defined by the Armed Forces Institute of Pathology. The lymphoma consisted of large cells and expressed the B cell marker, CD20. Although chronic inflammation due to chronic renal failure was observed in the pericardium around the lymphoma, polymerase chain reaction (PCR) was conducted to detect monoclonality at the DNA level in lymphoma cells, which were shown to comprise a monoclonal population.
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PMID:Case report of primary cardiac lymphoma. The applications of PCR to the diagnosis of primary cardiac lymphoma. 147 62

We present two patients with Hantaan virus infection, admitted to the Department of Nephrology, Skopje, at the same time, with the same clinical presentation (chills, fever, abdominal pain, hemorrhages, nausea, headache, proteinuria, hematuria, oliguria, acute renal failure) but with different pathohistological findings and different disease courses. In the first case diffuse proliferative glomerulonephritis was found, with a complete recovery of renal function after a month, with a mild proteinuria and erythruria during the second and the third month. In the second case, glomeruli were normal in general, with slight mesangial proliferation found in two out of twenty, but interstitial edema, lymphocyte infiltrations and tubular changes were noted. Complete recovery was not noted after 3 months of follow-up. The patient is now without hemodialysis treatment, with polyuria, in the stable phase of chronic renal failure which is not improving.
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PMID:Different pathohistological presentations of acute renal involvement in Hantaan virus infection: report of two cases. 198 98

Familial Mediterranean fever (FMF) has been observed in a Swiss child without ethnic predisposition. The case is analyzed and the current literature briefly reviewed. Recurrent attacks of fever, accompanied by abdominal pain, colic and arthritic symptoms, and often by pleuritic pain and a transitory skin rash, are the hallmarks of FMF, which is predominantly seen in ethnic groups of the Mediterranean area, notably Sephardic Jews, Turks and Armenians. However, it rarely occurs among individuals without an ethnic predisposition. Its most ominous manifestation is amyloidosis, which leads to chronic renal failure within a matter of years. Thanks to colchicine treatment, which is now widely accepted, patients often lead normal lives, and it appears that amyloidosis can be prevented.
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PMID:[Familial Mediterranean fever. Study of a Swiss child]. 356 45

A man with previously undiagnosed chronic renal failure developed acute pancreatitis. He had severe abdominal pain and simultaneous loss of vision. Ophthalmoscopy showed pale, swollen optic discs, soft exudates and superficial retinal haemorrhages similar to that of Purtscher's retinopathy. We suggest that the ocular changes may be due to fat microemboli secondary to acute pancreatitis.
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PMID:Ischaemic optic neuropathy and retinopathy associated with acute pancreatitis. 398 23

Twelve patients with chronic renal failure and polycystic kidney disease represent 8% of the 151 hemodialysis patients followed up at the Chromalloy American Kidney Center, Washington University School of Medicine. Ten (83%) of these patients have diverticulosis, and four of these patients developed gross colonic perforation secondary to diverticulitis. Barium enemas on 31 chronic renal failure patients without polycystic kidney disease revealed diverticulosis in 10 (32%). None had diverticulitis. Barium enemas in 120 age-matched non-renal failure control patients revealed diverticulosis in 45 (38%). None had diverticulitis. These findings suggest that patients with chronic renal failure due to polycystic kidney disease have a high incidence of diverticulosis and diverticulitis, that diverticulosis occurs in patients with chronic renal failure without polycystic kidney disease at a rate similar to that in the general population, and that diverticulitis should be an initial consideration in the differential diagnosis of abdominal pain in patients with polycystic kidney disease.
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PMID:Diverticular disease in patients with chronic renal failure due to polycystic kidney disease. 676 88

After an upper respiratory tract infection an eight months old infant developed a severe hemolytic uremic syndrome with anemia, thrombocytopenia and anuria. Remarkable was a lesion of the erythrocytes by neuraminidase producing microorganisms. By early hemodialysis, blood transfusions and accurate fluid therapy the acute stage could be managed. The proceeding course was complicated by hypertension, seizures, coma, abdominal pain attacks and a fibrinous hemorrhagic pericarditis, which made an incomplete pericardectomy necessary. Although it came again to diuresis a severe chronic renal failure with its concluding effects as anemia, acidosis, hypertension and inanition resulted. After a four months period the patient died of biventricular congestive heart failure.
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PMID:[Severe course of a hemolytic-uremic syndrome]. 715 51

The syndrome of abdominal angina is described in three patients receiving long-term hemodialysis. This clinical entity has not yet been described in patients with chronic renal failure. The classic triad of abdominal pain, weight loss, and diarrhea produces fear of eating. Most laboratory and radiologic investigations are inconclusive. Remarkable relief of symptoms occurs with maintenance of the hematocrit level above 30%, reduction of pump speed during hemodialysis to approximately 200 ml/min, use of a smaller surface area dialyzer, and administration of sublingual nitroglycerin. This clinical syndrome is often misdiagnosed, resulting in several unnecessary investigations, as well as unnecessary surgical procedures. Cholecystectomy is the operation most commonly done. All three of our patients died within ten months of diagnosis.
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PMID:Abdominal angina in patients receiving long-term hemodialysis. 746 33


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