Nashville Journal of Medicine and Surgery, Vol. CX. March, 1916. No. 3Various
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Nashville Journal of Medicine and Surgery, Vol. CX. March, 1916. No. 3
Various
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_Case IV_,—J. L., age 30, was admitted to Dr. Keyes’ service in Bellevue
Hospital in May, 1912, with the simple, but all-important, history of
hematuria and frequency of urination for one year. A physical
examination of the lungs revealed probable tubercular lesions.
Cystoscopy with catheterization of the ureters was performed at once,
showing pus from the right ureter whose orifice was swollen, with
deficient function of the right kidney. A microscopical examination of
the urine from this kidney showed the presence of Gram negative cocci
(which could not be grown, however,) and later a culture of the bladder
urine showed Gram negative cocci which were positively identified as
gonococci.
Finally, T. B. Bacilli were found in the bladder urine. Suspecting the
right kidney of being tuberculous, 25% argyrol was injected into the
right renal pelvis, and the right loin X-rayed. An excellent radiograph
showed small round shadows throughout the kidney, and a mouse-eaten
appearance of some of the papillae, a typical tuberculous picture. This
diagnosis was subsequently confirmed by the finding of T. B. bacilli in
the urine from the right kidney. The right kidney was accordingly
removed, and found to be rotten throughout. It was likewise full of
argyrol. When last heard from (February, 1915), the patient had gained
considerable weight despite his lung condition.
The above case was selected mainly to show what was doubtless a
gonococcus infection engrafted on to a tubercular kidney, as it is only
reasonable to suppose that the Gram negative cocci obtained from the
right ureter were the same as those in the bladder which was
subsequently found to be gonococci.
Aside from the readiness with which the diagnosis of tuberculosis of the
right kidney was made (by virtue of the T. B. bacilli in the urine) the
swollen right ureteral orifice, pus from the same, and deficient
function of the right kidney by the phenolsulphonephthalein test, the
case is of further interest because of the corroboration of this
diagnosis by pyelography after the injection of an organic silver
preparation.
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