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Hindawi, Case Reports in Nephrology, (2013), p. 1-3, 2013

DOI: 10.1155/2013/158494

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Ectopic Thoracic Kidney and End-Stage Renal Disease in a 38-Year-Old Nigerian

Journal article published in 2013 by U. E. Ekrikpo ORCID, E. E. Effa, E. E. Akpan
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Abstract

This patient is a 38-year-old housewife who presented with a one-month history of difficulty, in breathing, chest pain and bilateral leg swelling and had a blood pressure of 260/150 mmHg, features of malignant hypertension and hypertensive heart disease. Chest CT scan revealed a chest location of the left kidney. She also had elevated serum urea and creatinine and proteinuria (++). The right kidney was normally located with loss of corticomedullary differentiation. She is on maintenance haemodialysis and is being worked up for possible left nephrectomy.