NDT Plus Advance Access published online on July 15, 2008
NDT Plus, doi:10.1093/ndtplus/sfn099
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Acute abdomen and acute kidney injury: a common entity, a not so rare link?
1 Department of Nephrology and Renal Transplantation
2 Department of Surgery
3 Department of Intensive Medicine, Hospital de Santa Maria, Lisboa, Portugal
Correspondence: José António Lopes, Department of Nephrology and Renal Transplantation, Hospital de Santa Maria, 1649-035, Lisboa, Portugal. Tel: +351-961203912; Fax: +351-217805679; E-mail: jalopes93@hotmail.com
Received for publication May 1, 2008. Accepted for publication June 18, 2008.
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A 45-year-old Caucasian male with a 16-year history of HIV-1 infection and a 5-year history of ileocecal non-Hodgkin lymphoma was admitted to the emergency room with fever, and abdominal pain and distension. In the previous month, he noticed abdominal pain. A CT scan and colonoscopy were performed and confirmed tumour relapse involving the
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