Kidney Function

A pioneering health centre in Ottawa’s Orléans neighbourhood will provide kidney dialysis, cancer assessment, some surgeries and other services usually found only in hospitals. (Source: CBC | Health)

Teresa Maruna is on her feet all day in her job as a kidney dialysis technician, so her legs would feel tired in any case. But sometimes the pain would become excruciating, she said, and her ankles would swell to the point that they “seemed not to be ankles anymore.” (Source: Wash Post Health)

We report the case of a 66-year-old male chronic renal out-of-dialysis patient, with dominant polycystic kidney disease, presenting an asymptomatic infrarenal abdominal aortic aneurysm diagnosed by routine ultrasonography, submitted to successful elective surgery. ADPKD is a genetic syndrome, associated with PDK1 and PDK2 genes on chromosome 16. The expression of these genes in the vessel walls leads to vessel wall weakening, favoring aneurysm formation. In addition, metalloproteinase production by kidney tubules could be related to vascular diseases in ADPKD patients. These are important factors of early mortality and of morbidity in patients with ADPKD, thus the use of equipped propedeutics and early treatment are indicated, as these manifestations are usually asymptomatic. (Source: Jorn…