A male patient with right-sided thoracic kidney, diabetes mellitus, hearing loss and renal dysfunction.
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.
Sundaram
Vivek
V
Department of Medicine, Sri Ramachandra Medical College and Research Institute, Chennai, 600 116, India.
Vidhyashree
S A
SA
Pratap
Balaji
B
Surendranath
Adarsh
A
Matthew
Milly
M
Bhaskar
Emmanuel
E
Abraham
Georgi
G
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