title: A Cough Deteriorating Gross Hematuria: A Clinical Sign of a Forthcoming Life-Threatening Rupture of an Intraparenchymal Aneurysm of Renal Artery (Wunderlich's Syndrome).
abstract: Macroscopic hematuria regards the 4% to 20% of all urological visits. Renal artery aneurysms (RAAs) are detected in approximately 0.01%-1% of the general population, while intraparenchymal renal artery aneurysms (IPRAAs) are even more rarely detected in less than 10% of patients with RAAs. We present a case of a 58-year-old woman that came into the emergency room (ER) complaining of a gross hematuria during the last four days. Although in the ER room the first urine sample was clear after a cough episode, a severe gross hematuria began which led to a hemodynamically unstable patient. Finally, a radical nephrectomy was performed, and an IPRAA was the final diagnosis. A cough deteriorating hematuria could be attributed to a ruptured intraparenchymal renal artery aneurysm, which even though constitutes a rare entity, it is a life-threatening medical emergency.
authors.affiliation: Department of Urology, Laiko Hospital, University of Athens, Greece.
authors.forename: Ioannis
authors.initials: I
authors.lastname: Anastasiou
authors.forename: Ioannis
authors.initials: I
authors.lastname: Katafigiotis
authors.forename: Christos
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Pournaras
authors.forename: Evangelos
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Fragkiadis
authors.forename: Ioannis
authors.initials: I
authors.lastname: Leotsakos
authors.forename: Dionysios
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Mitropoulos
authors.forename: Constantinos A
authors.initials: CA
authors.lastname: Constantinides