Abstract

COTO-SOLANO, Beatriz; SEGURA-AGUERO, Laura  and  GONZALEZ-RODRIGUEZ, Gustavo. Uremic neuropathy reversion after kidney transplantation. Acta méd. costarric [online]. 2020, vol.62, n.4, pp.196-199. ISSN 0001-6002.

This paper presents the case of a 25-year-old patient with a history of chronic kidney disease stage 5 related to an idiopathic primary glomerulopathy presenting a uremic neuropathy; it is a Symmetrical distal sensitive-motor polyneuropathy that affected upper and lowers limbs and continued to progress until walking was no longer possible, in this patient after a kidney transplantation from alive related donor presents clinical and neurophysiological findings suggesting a reversal of the uremic neuropathy.

Keywords : Chronic kidney disease; kidney transplantation; uremic neuropathy.

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