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A male patient with right-sided thoracic kidney, diabetes mellitus, hearing loss and renal dysfunction

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A 48-year-old man with diabetes mellitus and hypertension was found to have a thoracic right-sided ectopic kidney with a sensorineuronal hearing loss and tubular abnormalities such as hyponatremia, hypokalemia, metabolic alkalosis with microalbuminuria. He was treated with ACEI and sodium and potassium supplements. However, this only partially corrected his metabolic abnormalities.

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  1. Department of Medicine, Sri Ramachandra Medical College and Research Institute, Chennai, 600 116, India

    Vivek Sundaram, S. A. Vidhyashree, Balaji Pratap, Adarsh Surendranath, Milly Matthew, Emmanuel Bhaskar & Georgi Abraham

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Sundaram, V., Vidhyashree, S.A., Pratap, B. et al. A male patient with right-sided thoracic kidney, diabetes mellitus, hearing loss and renal dysfunction. Int Urol Nephrol 39, 959–962 (2007). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11255-006-9138-x

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