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ALVAREZ ALVAREZ, Gerardo et al. Rotura renal bilateral espontánea en la poliarteritis nodosa. Rev cubana med [online]. 2003, vol.42, n.2, pp. 137-139. ISSN 1561-302X.

A patient with polyarteritis nodosa whose diagnosis was based on clinical, histological and arteriographic aspects was presented. It was observed, evolutively, an unusual and repeated complication: spontaneous renal rupture with retroperitoneal hematoma, at first in the right kidney and 8 days later, in the left. He lost his kidneys and he was under hemodialytic treatment during 3 months until he died. It was really rare within the complications of polyarteritis nodosa and the bilateral presentation was an exceptional event. Just a few reports were found in world medical literature.

Palabras clave : POLYARTERITIS NODOSA [complications]; POLYARTERITIS NODOSA [drug therapy]; NEPHRECTOMY [methods]; RUPTURE, SPONTANEOUS [complications].

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