End-stage renal disease in a patient with congenital lymphangiectasia and lymphedema

Pediatr Nephrol. 2001 Feb;16(2):151-3. doi: 10.1007/s004670000526.

Abstract

Congenital lymphangiectasia with lymphedema is a disorder constituting the main defect in many different genetic syndromes. Herein we describe a 23-year-old male patient with congenital lymphangiectasia and severe lymphedema of the right leg, scrotum, and abdominal wall, who presented with end-stage renal disease, presumably due to cystic renal lymphangiectasia, and is undergoing chronic hemodialysis treatment.

Publication types

  • Case Reports

MeSH terms

  • Adult
  • Humans
  • Kidney Failure, Chronic / complications*
  • Kidney Failure, Chronic / pathology
  • Kidney Failure, Chronic / therapy
  • Kidney Function Tests
  • Lymphangiectasis / complications*
  • Lymphangiectasis / pathology
  • Lymphedema / complications*
  • Lymphedema / pathology
  • Male
  • Renal Dialysis