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Ureteral urine leak presenting as a pleural effusion in a renal transplant recipient

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We report a 15-year-old girl who developed a ureteral perforation soon after living-related donor renal transplantation. Her presentation was unusual in that a symptomatic pleural effusion accumulated as an extension of the perinephric urine collection. Recognition and surgical correction of the ureteral pathology led to resolution of respiratory symptomatology and full recovery of renal function.

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  1. Department of Pediatrics, The Milton S. Hershey Medical Center of the Penn State Geisinger Health System, Hershey, Pennsylvania, USA, , , , , , US

    Deborah Kees-Folts

  2. Department of Pediatrics, St. Louis Children’s Hospital, Washington University, School of Medicine, St. Louis, Missouri, USA, , , , , , US

    Barbara R. Cole

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Received October 15, 1997; received in revised form February 17, 1998; accepted February 20, 1998

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Kees-Folts, D., Cole, B. Ureteral urine leak presenting as a pleural effusion in a renal transplant recipient. Pediatr Nephrol 12, 666–667 (1998). https://doi.org/10.1007/s004670050525

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