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CASE REPORT
Year : 2001  |  Volume : 17  |  Issue : 2  |  Page : 166-167
 

Renal allograft rejection causing coagulation of urine


Department of Urology & Renal Transplantation, Sanjay Gandhi Post Graduate Institute of Medical Sciences, Lucknow, India

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Anant Kumar
Department of Urology & Renal Transplantation, Sanjay Gandhi Post Graduate Institute of Medical Sciences, Lucknow - 226 014
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Keywords: Rejection; Coagulation; Transplantation


How to cite this article:
Gogoi S, Sanjeevan K V, Kumar A, Srivastava A, Mandhani A. Renal allograft rejection causing coagulation of urine. Indian J Urol 2001;17:166-7

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Gogoi S, Sanjeevan K V, Kumar A, Srivastava A, Mandhani A. Renal allograft rejection causing coagulation of urine. Indian J Urol [serial online] 2001 [cited 2023 Apr 2];17:166-7. Available from: https://www.indianjurol.com/text.asp?2001/17/2/166/20263



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A 32-year-old female renal allograft recipient developed steroid resistant acute cellular rejection six months after transplant and eventually became dialysis-dependent. 6 weeks later, she started passing fleshy material in her urine. The daily urine output was about 300 ml. Cystoscopy re­vealed the presence of tenacious floating material in nor­mal looking bladder with no source of bleeding. Urine collected for examination on the next day showed an unu­sual picture. The urine became jelly like in 30 minutes, which eventually solidified and could not be spilled out even on inverting the test tube [Figure - 1]. This phenom­enon was seen on subsequent days as well.

Urine culture yielded significant growth of staphyloco­ccus aureus (Coagulase positive). Urine collected over 24 hours (200 ml) contained 531 mg proteins, 36 mg creati­nine, 11 mg phosphorus, 10 mg calcium, 26 mmol sodium, 1.34 mmol potassium and 20 mmol of chloride. The os­molarity was 327 mosmol/L. These estimations were not done in whole urine but with the fluid collected inside the coagulum.

Urine collected from the native kidneys by selective cath­eterization did not clot. Attempts to measure the fibrinogen level of the urine, if any, and electrophoresis of urine did not succeed as urine samples in EDTA vials coagulated by the time it was taken for analysis to the laboratory.

Histopathology of the clot showed irregular organized proteinaceous material with entrapped mononuclear cells, straining negative for fungus and malignant cells. Graft nephrectorny was done as she was developing repeated retention of urine and was having severe hypoproteinemia. Gross appearance of the graft was unremarkable but for the presence of similar tenacious material in the ureter and renal pelvis. Histopathology of the renal graft showed features of acute rejection with tubulitis. She underwent a subsequent renal transplantation and was doing well at two-year posttransplant follow-up.

Extensive investigations of blood and urine including electrophoresis and histology of the "fleshy material ,, passed per urethra could not reveal the cause for the co­agulation of urine.


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High proteinuria is observed in several conditions. Per­haps the only situation in which coagulum forms in the urine is chyluria where we see an amorphous type of coagulum. Proteinuria in itself cannot lead to coagulation of urine and such an event is not reported even with nephrotic syndrome. where proteinuria may be as high as 30 to 40 g/24 hrs. [1] We have seen urinary protein loss of 20 - 24 g/ 24 hrs in chylu­ria but no similar clinical event. It could be possible that the rejected kidney was leaking fibrinogen or its degrada­tion products. which by interacting with urinary proteins resulted in coagulation. However, we could not prove this point. We could speculate that coagulase positive staphylo­cocci initiated or activated such a process.

 
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1.Lafayette RA. Perrone RD, Levey AS. Laboratory evaluation of renal function. In: Schrier RW Gottschalk CW (eds.). Disease of the Kidney (6th edn.). Little Brown. Boston. 1997: 1: 307-354.  Back to cited text no. 1    


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