Hypothyroidism and associated acute kidney injury

Mohammed Khalid; Housam Al Talla; Nouh Dyab

doi:10.51131/IJPCCR/v2i2.8

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Hypothyroidism and associated acute kidney injury

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International Journal of Preclinical and Clinical Research

DOI: 10.51131/IJPCCR/v2i2.8

Year: 2021, Volume: 2, Issue: 2, Pages: 42-43

Case Report

Hypothyroidism and associated acute kidney injury

Mohammed Khalid ^1,*, Housam Al Talla ², Nouh Dyab ³

1 Specialist Internal medicine, Amina Hospital, Ajman, United Arab Emirates.

2 Specialist Nephrologist, Amina Hospital, Ajman, United Arab Emirates.

3 General Practitioner, ER, Amina Hospital, Ajman, United Arab Emirates.

*Corresponding author email: [email protected]

Received Date:30 May 2021, Accepted Date:22 July 2021, Published Date:24 July 2021

This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.

Abstract

Profound hypothyroidism can be a cause of unexplained acute renal failure. On correction of hypothyroidism renal dysfunction improves. There are reports of severe hypothyroidism causing rhabdomyolysis, elevated creatinine kinase and acute renal failure, but these are associated with other precipitating causes like exercise, trauma or statin use ⁽^1,²⁾. We report a case of gentleman who presented with profound hypothyroidism, elevated creatinine kinase and acute kidney injury whose renal function improved when his hypothyroidism was treated. There were no other causes of acute kidney injury.

Keywords

Hypothyroidism, Acute Kidney Injury, Renal dysfunction

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© 2021 Khalid et al. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited. Published By Basaveshwara Medical College & Hospital, Chitradurga, Karnataka.