%0 Journal Article
%T Remission of protein-losing enteropathy after surgical repair of a giant umbilical hernia in a dialysis patient
%A Gutierrez Sanchez
%A Maria J.
%A Stoyanov
%A Vladimir Petkov
%A Martin Navarro
%A Juan A.
%J Portuguese Journal of Nephrology & Hypertension
%D 2012
%I Scientific Electronic Library Online
%X we present a 57-year-old male chronic haemodialysis patient with a giant umbilical hernia. after two months on dialysis, incarceration of the hernia with partial intestinal obstruction occurred, and this led to severe hypoproteinaemia secondary to protein-losing enteropathy, caused by increased lymphatic pressure. these problems were resolved following surgical repair of the hernia. there are few such cases in the literature and none involving a haemodialysis patient
%K haemodialysis
%K hypoalbuminaemia
%K protein-losing enteropathy
%K umbilical hernia.
%U http://www.scielo.gpeari.mctes.pt/scielo.php?script=sci_abstract&pid=S0872-01692012000300006&lng=en&nrm=iso&tlng=en