A lady with unresolved loin pain

J R Soc Med. 2008 Feb;101(2):85-6. doi: 10.1258/jrsm.2008.070404.

Abstract

A history of cardiac disease, especially atrial fibrillation, together with symptoms such as loin or abdominal pain, and accompanied by an elevated lactate dehydrogenase should prompt a computed tomography scan to exclude the diagnosis of acute renal infarction.

Publication types

  • Case Reports

MeSH terms

  • Abdominal Pain / etiology*
  • Acute Disease
  • Adult
  • Atrial Fibrillation / complications*
  • Embolism / diagnostic imaging*
  • Embolism / etiology
  • Female
  • Humans
  • Infarction / diagnostic imaging*
  • Infarction / etiology
  • Kidney / blood supply*
  • L-Lactate Dehydrogenase / metabolism
  • Renal Artery Obstruction / diagnostic imaging*
  • Renal Artery Obstruction / etiology
  • Tomography, X-Ray Computed

Substances

  • L-Lactate Dehydrogenase