Polycystic Horseshoe Kidney and Polycystic Liver Disease

Gürsel Yildiz, Ender Hür, Kemal Mağden, Sumru Tanju Şen, Abdukerim Yilmaz and Alp Gürkan

Department of Nephrology, Istanbul Okan University School of Medicine, Turkey
Department of Nephrology, Bulent Ecevit University School of Medicine, Turkey
Department of Radiology, Ataturk State Hospital, Turkey
Department of Gastroenterology, Cumhuriyet University School of Medicine, Turkey
Department of General Surgery, Istanbul Okan University School of Medicine, Turkey

^*Correspondance to: Alp Gürkan 

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Abstract:

Horseshoe kidney is a renal fusion anomaly during embryogenesis with incidence ranges of 1 in 400 to 1 in 1800 live births. Adult polycystic kidney disease is a hereditary disorder and transmitted in autosomal dominant pattern with a reported incidence of 1 in 1000 to 1 in 5000 cases. Polycystic horseshoe kidney is a very rare occurrence with incidence ranges of 1 in 134 000 to 1 in 8 000 000 live births. We here present a patient who was admitted at the hospital with headache, hypertension and polycystic horseshoe kidney.

Keywords:

Horseshoe kidney; Polycystic kidney disease; Polycystic liver disease

Cite the Article:

Yildiz G, Hür E, Mağden K, Tanju Şen S, Yilmaz A, Gürkan A. Polycystic Horseshoe Kidney and Polycystic Liver Disease. World J Surg Surgical Res. 2019; 2: 1115.