Thinking Beyond Acute Kidney Injury

In this report, we present the case of a middle-aged female with no known past medical history who presented with AKI secondary to malignant retroperitoneal fibrosis as the first manifestation of metastatic breast cancer. Her AKI was associated with acute onset anuria and was found to have nondilated postrenal AKI with no significant abnormalities on renal imaging. Early onset anuria in the setting of AKI, which persists despite fluid resuscitation, can suggest complete urinary tract obstruction even with reassuring results of initial renal images, and in the pa tient with no history of cancer screening, malignancy should be suspected as a primary cause of obstructive uropathy.Case Rep Nephrol Dial 2022;12:16 –21
Source: Case Reports in Nephrology and Dialysis - Category: Urology & Nephrology Source Type: research