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Case Reports
. 2024 Oct;53(5):e12739.
doi: 10.1111/jmp.12739.

Chronic Kidney Disease and Kidney Stone in a Wild Chimpanzee (Pan troglodytes verus) in Côte d'Ivoire

Jenny E Jaffe  1   2   3 , Kerstin Mätz-Rensing  4 , Markus Ulrich  2   5 , Tobias Gräßle  1   2   5 , Verena Behringer  4 , Roman M Wittig  1   6 , Fabian H Leendertz  2   5
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Chronic Kidney Disease and Kidney Stone in a Wild Chimpanzee (Pan troglodytes verus) in Côte d'Ivoire

Jenny E Jaffe et al. J Med Primatol. 2024 Oct.

Abstract

An older wild female chimpanzee (Pan troglodytes) was found dead with a large calcium oxalate stone in the renal pelvis. Histopathological changes included glomerulosclerosis, interstitial nephritis and fibrosis, focal mineralization, and medial hypertrophy. Urinary albumin-creatinine-ratio showed increased values from 15 months before death. Causes of the kidney disease remain unconfirmed.

Keywords: 16S; albumin‐creatinin‐ratio; calcium oxalate; microbiome; nephrolithiasis; non‐human primate; renal calculus; urinalysis.

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