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Nephrol Dial Transplant (2001) 16: 1073-1074
© 2001 European Renal Association-European Dialysis and Transplant Association

Images in Nephrology

Nephrocalcinosis induced by furosemide in an adult patient with incomplete renal tubular acidosis

(Section Editor: G. H. Neild)

Adelaide Simões, Fernando Domingos and M. Martins Prata

Serviço de Nefrologia, Hospital de Santa Maria, Lisboa

Keywords: furosemide; hypercalciuria; hypocitraturia; nephrocalcinosis; renal ultrasonography

Although frequently described in children, medullary nephrocalcinosis associated with furosemide has rarely been described in adults.

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A 40-year-old female patient was referred to the outpatient renal stone clinic of the Santa Maria Hospital for investigation of nephrocalcinosis. She had a previous history of one single episode of renal colic 15 years earlier and had been self-administering furosemide (40–160 mg/day) ever since, allegedly due to persistent oedema. A few months previously, a blood test revealed a slight increase in creatinine . . . [Full Text of this Article]

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