A Case of Embolization to a Large Polycystic Kidney With Infection

Takaiwa, Masashi; Nakano, Michiko; Koseki, Keita; Yoshida, Junya; Iwasaki, Mitsuharu; Kuma, Yoshinobu; Kushida, Nobuhiro; Kamata, Tatsuhiko; Yokota, Takashi; Yamaguchi, Osamu

doi:10.5980/jpnjurol1989.91.595

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“…The most frequent complications are intracystic bleeding, gross hematuria, stone formation, chronic pain and cyst infection [1][2][3][4]. The latter two complications can be treated by renal cyst percutaneous drainage, embolization, cyst decortications and nephrectomy [5][6][7][8]. Open surgery was the preferred technique for nephrectomy, but after the emergence of laparoscopy, the latter has been progressively selected (using transperitoneal or retroperitoneal approaches) for bilateral nephrectomy as well as decortications of renal cysts [9], with few complications.…”

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Hyperbaric oxygen therapy in a patient with autosomal dominant polycystic kidney disease with a perinephritic abscess

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A 68-year-old female in hemodialysis due to autosomal dominant polycystic kidney disease underwent resection of cysts in her right kidney via a laparoscopic approach due to abdominal pain. Three weeks after surgery, she was admitted with sepsis. A CT scan showed a large abscess around the right kidney. Percutaneous drainage of abscess was performed. The pus smear showed Gram-positive cocci and the culture contained methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus. Ciprofloxacin, clindamycin and vancomycin were given. In the 3 weeks following admission, she remained febrile and septic and showed a progressive deterioration in her general condition, along with malnutrition and persistent drainage of purulent material from her right flank. The antibiotic therapy was changed to vancomycin, metronidazole and meropenem, but no improvement was observed. Because of the high risk associated with carrying out an open nephrectomy, we decided to use hyperbaric oxygen therapy (HBOT) as a potentially useful measure to control her infection. The patient underwent 26 daily sessions of 100% hyperbaric oxygen (2.5 atm). The use of HBOT induced a notable break in the clinical course of this patient's retroperitoneal infection. She was discharged after day 58 without any signs of inflammatory activity, and she has not presented reactivation of infection since then. We think that this case suggests that this therapy could be a new therapeutic tool in the management of patients with similar clinical features when all other therapeutic measures have failed. We did not find any other reports of the use of HBOT in infections of renal cysts.

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