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[Decrease in general health status, febrile state and sinusitis in renal insufficiency].

A de Torrenté¹, L Guillou

¹Département de médecine interne, Faculté de médecine, Université de Lausanne.

Schweizerische Medizinische Wochenschrift

|September 19, 1992

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This case study describes a patient with chronic renal failure, hypertensive heart disease, and anemia who developed a carcinoid tumor. The patient experienced severe, multi-systemic complications including sinus and eye involvement, ultimately succumbing to his illness.

Area of Science:

Nephrology
Oncology
Infectious Diseases

Background:

A 59-year-old male with a 9-year history of chronic renal failure requiring dialysis, hypertensive cardiopathy, and anemia presented with complex medical issues.
The patient had received over 70 units of blood and was treated with desferrioxamine for elevated blood aluminum levels.

Observation:

An intestinal lesion was discovered after melena episodes, with elevated serotonin levels and liver biopsy findings suggestive of a carcinoid tumor or pancreatic islet cell tumor.
The patient developed ascites, edema, fever, and a gingival abscess, with Klebsiella pneumoniae identified in blood cultures.

Findings:

Despite treatment, the patient experienced recurrent fever, myalgias, eyelid edema, maxillary pain, and a necrotic nasal lesion.
Ophthalmological findings included sudden blindness with retinal ischemia, elevated sedimentation rate, prompting suspected temporal arteritis treatment.

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Implications:

The case highlights the diagnostic challenges of multi-systemic manifestations in patients with underlying chronic diseases and malignancy.
Differential diagnoses for the terminal illness included lethal midline granuloma, Wegener's granuloma, lymphomas, and infectious etiologies.
The discussant accepted diagnoses of hypertensive cardiopathy, renal failure, and metastatic carcinoid, while questioning the role of iron overload and exploring causes for the terminal manifestations.