Renal arterial thrombosis after the contralateral removal of a pelvic kidney.
In a 19-year-old female a pelvic kidney, on the left side, was removed because of recurrent urinary tract infections, severe abdominal complaints and a pathological isotope-nephrography. Following nephrectomy a severe uremia with cerebral edema and pneumonia developed based on a medial necrosis of the artery of the right kidney. After surgical correction the function of the right solitary kidney returned to normal.
D000328:Adult; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007668:Kidney / Q000002:abnormalities*; D009392:Nephrectomy; D011183:Postoperative Complications; D012078:Renal Artery Obstruction / Q000209:etiology* / Q000601:surgery