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Scientists at State University of New York, Department of Medicine describe research in leiomyoma

Published in Blood Weekly, May 13th, 2010

New research, 'Uterine leiomyoma causing urinary obstruction of the transplanted kidney,' is the subject of a report. "Obstruction of the ureter as a cause of acute or chronic kidney injury in the transplanted kidney is unusual beyond the perioperative period. We present a case of ureteric obstruction, infection and septicemia caused by a large uterine leiomyoma in a patient 8 years post transplantation," scientists in the United States report.

"Initial treatment comprised of intravenous fluid and antibiotics followed by urgent drainage of the collecting system. Subsequent hysterectomy resolved the obstruction with resolution of renal failure," wrote M. Abate and...

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