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Case Reports
. 2016 Jan 30;5(1):48-52.
doi: 10.15171/jrip.2016.11. eCollection 2016.

Pleuritic chest pain from portal hypertensive gastropathy in ESRD patient with autosomal dominant polycystic kidney disease misdiagnosed as pericarditis

Macaulay Amechi Chukwukadibia Onuigbo  1 , Nneoma Agbasi  2 , Jennifer Achebe  3 , Charles Odenigbo  4 , Fidelis Oguejiofor  4
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Pleuritic chest pain from portal hypertensive gastropathy in ESRD patient with autosomal dominant polycystic kidney disease misdiagnosed as pericarditis

Macaulay Amechi Chukwukadibia Onuigbo et al. J Renal Inj Prev. .

Abstract

Portal hypertensive gastropathy (PHG) is a gastric mucosal lesion complicating portal hypertension, with higher prevalence in decompensated cirrhosis. PHG can sometimes complicate autosomal dominant polycystic kidney disease (ADPKD) due to the presence of multiple liver cysts. Besides, PHG is known to present as chest pain, with or without hematemesis. Other causes of chest pain in ADPKD include referred chest pain from progressively enlarging kidney cysts, and rare pericardial cysts. Chest pain, especially if pleuritic, in end-stage renal disease (ESRD) patients, is often ascribed to uremic pericarditis. We present recurrent pleuritic chest pain in a 24-year old ESRD patient with ADPKD that was initially misdiagnosed as uremic pericarditis. It was ultimately shown to represent symptomatic PHG with excellent therapeutic response to proton pump inhibitors.

Keywords: ADPKD; Chest pain; End stage renal disease; Gastropathy; Pericarditis; Portal hypertensive gastropathy.

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