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Acute Ethylene Glycol Poisoning Following Accidental Mineral Oil Ingestion With Severe Metabolic Acidosis, Acute Kidney Injury, Respiratory Failure, and Delayed Neurological Sequelae: A Case Report.

Am J Case RepNov 11, 2026

A 57-year-old man became dizzy, vomited, and developed altered consciousness progressing to coma after accidentally ingesting mineral oil containing ethylene glycol.

Clinical pearl

Coma with vomiting, high-anion-gap metabolic acidosis, and renal dysfunction should prompt consideration of toxic alcohol exposure, including when the reported ingestion is of a product such as mineral oil.

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IgD-λ POEMS syndrome presenting with edema, pulmonary hypertension, and renal impairment: A case report.

A 38-year-old woman presented with years of intermittent leg edema, elevated creatinine, and acute worsening, followed by precapillary pulmonary hypertension, polyserous effusions, splenomegaly, lymphadenopathy, anemia…

Medicine (Baltimore)Nov 6, 2026Read case
Case ReportNephrology

Glucocorticoid therapy for acute interstitial nephritis in a patient with diabetic nephropathy: A case report.

A 41-year-old man with diabetes and hypertension developed acute kidney dysfunction after previously normal renal function; he had used an unidentified herbal decoction during the preceding month.

Medicine (Baltimore)Nov 6, 2026Read case
Case ReportNephrology

Successful ABO-incompatible renal transplantation of blood group A1 donor into A2 recipient with anti-A1 isoagglutinins: case report and review of literature.

A 73-year-old woman with end-stage kidney disease due to AL amyloidosis was evaluated for kidney transplantation. An ABO typing discrepancy led to serologic testing and genotyping, which confirmed an A2 recipient with…

Am J Clin PatholNov 4, 2026Read case
Case ReportGeriatrics

Severe Rosuvastatin-Associated Rhabdomyolysis and Dialysis-Requiring Acute Kidney Injury in an Octogenarian Patient: A Case Report.

An 87-year-old woman developed progressive weakness and inability to walk 20 days after starting rosuvastatin, ezetimibe, and evogliptin.

Am J Case RepNov 6, 2026Read case
Case ReportNephrology

Recovery after more than one month of dialysis in legionella-associated acute kidney injury: a case evaluated with gallium-67 scintigraphy and renal biopsy.

A 73-year-old man developed dialysis-dependent acute kidney injury during severe Legionella pneumonia. Although the infection resolved and antibiotics had been stopped, kidney injury persisted for more than a month.

CEN Case RepNov 5, 2026Read case
Case ReportNephrology

Vitamin D receptor activator-associated calcium-alkali syndrome-like phenotype without calcium supplementation: a case series of seven patients.

A retrospective series identified seven elderly women receiving vitamin D receptor activators who developed hypercalcemia, bicarbonate of at least 26 mmol/L, and acute kidney injury, meeting the study’s operational…

CEN Case RepNov 5, 2026Read case
Case ReportRheumatologyOpen access

Pulmonary-Cardiac Involvement in a Patient with IgA Vasculitis.

A 41-year-old woman with biopsy-proven IgA nephropathy presented with progressive dyspnea, hemoptysis, and a painful purpuric rash.

Methodist Debakey Cardiovasc JNov 3, 2026Read case
Case ReportNeurology

Anti-Contactin-1 Nodopathy Presenting With Dysphagia and Nephrotic Syndrome: Remarkable Neurological and Renal Recovery Following Early B-Cell-Targeted Therapy.

A 77-year-old man with diabetes and pre-existing heavy proteinuria developed rapidly progressive distal numbness, weakness, sensory ataxia, mild dysphagia, and functional decline.

NeurologistNov 1, 2026Read case
Case ReportPediatrics

Excellent Long-Term Outcome in a Staged, Simultaneous Liver-Kidney Transplantation of a Highly Sensitized Pediatric Patient With B and T Cell Positive Crossmatch.

A highly sensitized small child with high-titer class I and II donor-specific antibodies underwent staged simultaneous liver-kidney transplantation from the same donor despite a positive cytotoxic crossmatch.

Pediatr TransplantNov 1, 2026Read case
Case ReportPediatrics

Preemptive Kidney Transplantation in a Pediatric Patient With Factor XI Deficiency: A Case Report.

A 14-year-old boy with end-stage renal disease from congenital posterior urethral valves underwent preemptive living-donor heterotopic kidney transplantation from his brother.

Pediatr TransplantNov 1, 2026Read case
Case ReportEndocrinology

Tirzepatide-associated severe euvolemic hyponatremia with syndrome of inappropriate antidiuretic hormone secretion-compatible biochemical features.

A woman with type 2 diabetes and morbid obesity, taking regular insulin and chronic torsemide, developed anorexia, weakness, and drowsiness 10 days after receiving tirzepatide.

Indian J PharmacolNov 2, 2026Read case

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