Unilateral Shrunken Kidney in a 58 Year Old Nigerian Woman with Kidney Stone

Abstract

Kidney stones are formed as a result of interplay between factors promoting and those inhibiting stone formation in the kidneys/urinary tracts. Kidney stones cause a lot of complications including urinary tract obstruction. Failure or delay in relieving the obstruction causes irreversible damage to the kidney and urinary tract leading to loss of function and atrophy of the kidney. Mrs. AT was a 58 year old woman referred from a general hospital with an 8 year history of right lumbar pain. The clinical examination and investigations revealed that she had atrophy and loss of function of the right kidney secondary to nephrolithiasis. The objective of this case study is to highlight that kidney stone can lead to unilateral kidney atrophy and loss of function