title: Acute renal infarction presenting with acute abdominal pain secondary to newly discovered atrial fibrillation: a case report and literature review.
abstract: We report an 85-year-old female with known history of recurrent diverticulitis presented with abdominal pain. It was believed that the patient again needed to be treated for another diverticulitis and was started on the routine treatment. The initial CT scan of abdomen showed renal infarcts bilaterally that were confirmed by a CT with and without intravenous contrast secondary to unknown cause. An ECG found accidentally that the patient was in atrial fibrillation, which was the attributed factor to the renal infarctions. Subsequently, the patient was started on the appropriate anticoagulation and discharged.
authors.affiliation: Department of Internal Medicine, Monmouth Medical Center, 300 Second Avenue, Long Branch, NJ 07740, USA.
authors.forename: Sherif Ali
authors.initials: SA
authors.lastname: Eltawansy
authors.affiliation: Department of Internal Medicine, Monmouth Medical Center, 300 Second Avenue, Long Branch, NJ 07740, USA.
authors.forename: Shil
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Patel
authors.affiliation: Department of Internal Medicine, Monmouth Medical Center, 300 Second Avenue, Long Branch, NJ 07740, USA.
authors.forename: Mana
authors.identifier: 0000-0002-2516-2079
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Rao
authors.affiliation: Department of Medicine, Cairo University Medical School, Cairo 11562, Egypt.
authors.forename: Samaa
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Hassanien
authors.affiliation: Department of Internal Medicine, Monmouth Medical Center, 300 Second Avenue, Long Branch, NJ 07740, USA.
authors.forename: Mihir
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Maniar