title: A male patient with right-sided thoracic kidney, diabetes mellitus, hearing loss and renal dysfunction.
abstract: A 48-year-old man with diabetes mellitus and hypertension was found to have a thoracic right-sided ectopic kidney with a sensorineuronal hearing loss and tubular abnormalities such as hyponatremia, hypokalemia, metabolic alkalosis with microalbuminuria. He was treated with ACEI and sodium and potassium supplements. However, this only partially corrected his metabolic abnormalities.
authors.affiliation: Department of Medicine, Sri Ramachandra Medical College and Research Institute, Chennai, 600 116, India.
authors.forename: Vivek
authors.initials: V
authors.lastname: Sundaram
authors.forename: S A
authors.initials: SA
authors.lastname: Vidhyashree
authors.forename: Balaji
authors.initials: B
authors.lastname: Pratap
authors.forename: Adarsh
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Surendranath
authors.forename: Milly
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Matthew
authors.forename: Emmanuel
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Bhaskar
authors.forename: Georgi
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Abraham
mesh_terms: D000471:Alkalosis / Q000453:epidemiology; D015897:Comorbidity; D003924:Diabetes Mellitus, Type 2 / Q000453:epidemiology*; D006319:Hearing Loss, Sensorineural / Q000453:epidemiology*; D006801:Humans; D007008:Hypokalemia / Q000453:epidemiology; D007010:Hyponatremia / Q000453:epidemiology; D007668:Kidney / Q000002:abnormalities*; D007674:Kidney Diseases / Q000453:epidemiology*; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged