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CC BY 4.0 · TH Open 2019; 03(04): e331-e334
DOI: 10.1055/s-0039-1698757
Letter to the Editor
Georg Thieme Verlag KG Stuttgart · New York

Idiopathic Renal Infarction and Anticoagulation

Maurice I. Khayat
1   Department of Nephrology, Walter Reed National Military Medical Center, Bethesda, Maryland, United States
,
Robert Nee
1   Department of Nephrology, Walter Reed National Military Medical Center, Bethesda, Maryland, United States
,
Dustin J. Little
1   Department of Nephrology, Walter Reed National Military Medical Center, Bethesda, Maryland, United States
,
Stephen W. Olson
1   Department of Nephrology, Walter Reed National Military Medical Center, Bethesda, Maryland, United States
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23 July 2019

27 August 2019

Publication Date:
09 October 2019 (online)

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Introduction

Idiopathic renal infarction (iRI) is rare and the pathophysiology is not well understood.[1] There is no consensus treatment strategy for iRI, because previous studies have not reported long-term outcomes based on therapeutic intervention.[2] [3] [4] [5] [6] [7] [8] [9] [10] [11] [12] [13] [14] [15] We sought to determine if anticoagulation or nonanticoagulation was associated with a higher incidence of recurrent arterial thrombosis, de novo venous thrombosis, bleeding event, or development of long-term hypertension, proteinuria, or chronic kidney disease (CKD).

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