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A 42-year-old Syrian citizen was admitted to the internal department from the intensive care unit after war injury. Laparotomy and splenectomy had been undertaken in another hospital few days before admission to our hospital.
On admission to the hospital, he was fully conscious, pale, and dyspneic; a deep wound on his buttock and a surgical suture with serous discharge were noted on his left upper abdomen.
Laboratory examination reveals creatinine 10 mg% and hemoglobin 8 g%, and metabolic acidosis was noted on arterial blood gases.
He was treated with massive blood and fluid resuscitation and hemodialysis with gradual amelioration.
Acute tubular necrosis secondary to blood loss and nephrotoxic antibiotic drug treatment was assumed as the main mechanism to explain his acute renal failure.
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Farah, R., Ben-Dror, G. (2017). Reversible War-Induced Renal Failure. In: Zarka, S., Lerner, A. (eds) Complicated War Trauma and Care of the Wounded . Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-53339-1_23
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