Korean J Nephrol.  2002 Mar;21(2):332-336.

Right Common Iliac Artery Thrombosis and Aortic Artery Thrombosis Associated with Renal Infarction in Adult Minimal Change Nephrotic Syndrome

Affiliations
  • 1Department of Internal Medicine, College of Medicine, The Catholic University of Korea, Seoul, Korea. sayoon@cmc.cuk.ac.kr
  • 2Department of General Surgery, College of Medicine, The Catholic University of Korea, Seoul, Korea.
  • 3Department of Clinical Pathology, College of Medicine, The Catholic University of Korea, Seoul, Korea.
  • 4Department of Radiology, College of Medicine, The Catholic University of Korea, Seoul, Korea.

Abstract

The nephrotic syndrome frequently causes a hypercoagulable state, leading to thromboembolic complications in veins, but arterial thrombosis is relatively rare, and is usually associated with a poor prognosis. We report 50-year-old female patient who presented with minimal change disease complicated with aortic and right iliac arterial thrombosis. She was admitted to our hospital with severe pain in her right leg and left flank. No pulse was palpable in her right femoral artery. Aortography demonstrated a focal eccentric thrombus attached to the left wall of aorta, in which the left renal artery was occluded, and another thrombus obstructing the right common iliac artery. An emergency thrombectomy was performed. Although the patient had satisfactory reperfusion of right common iliac artery, her left renal function was not recovered. A renal biopsy revealed histologic evidence of minimal change of glomerulonephritis. After 8 weeks of steroid therapy, cytoxan was started. After 3 weeks, she developed pneumonitis and died with sepsis.

Keyword

Arterial thrombosis; Nephrotic syndrome

MeSH Terms

Adult*
Aorta
Aortography
Arteries*
Biopsy
Cyclophosphamide
Emergencies
Female
Femoral Artery
Glomerulonephritis
Humans
Iliac Artery*
Infarction*
Leg
Middle Aged
Nephrosis, Lipoid*
Nephrotic Syndrome
Pneumonia
Prognosis
Renal Artery
Reperfusion
Sepsis
Thrombectomy
Thrombosis*
Veins
Cyclophosphamide
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