Unusual diagnosis of urinothorax: a case report


Submitted: 17 May 2016
Accepted: 10 June 2016
Published: 8 November 2016
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Authors

  • Sanjith Saseedharan Intensive Care Unit, S.L. Raheja Hospital, Mumbai, Maharashtra, India.
  • Edwin J. Pathrose Intensive Care Unit, S.L. Raheja Hospital, Mumbai, Maharashtra, India; Smolensk State Medical Academy, Russian Federation.
  • Vaibhav Kubal Department of Pulmonology, S.L. Raheja Hospital, Mumbai, Maharashtra, India.
  • Anand Pandhare Intensive Care Unit, S.L. Raheja Hospital, Mumbai, Maharashtra, India.
Urinothorax is a rare cause of pleural effusion characterized by the collection of urine in the pleural space. The index of suspicion should be higher when a pleural effusion is associated with cases of urinary tract obstruction or obstructive uropathy (renal calculi) and trauma. The characteristic feature in the diagnosis of urinothorax lies in the biochemistry, where the ratio of pleural fluid to serum creatinine is higher than 1. The present case is a unique instance of urinothorax with left urinoma and hydronephrosis where the ratio of pleural fluid to serum creatinine is below one.

Sanjith Saseedharan, Intensive Care Unit, S.L. Raheja Hospital, Mumbai, Maharashtra

Head - Intensive Care

Edwin J. Pathrose, Intensive Care Unit, S.L. Raheja Hospital, Mumbai, Maharashtra, India; Smolensk State Medical Academy
Intensive Care Unit - ICU Registrar
Vaibhav Kubal, Department of Pulmonology, S.L. Raheja Hospital, Mumbai, Maharashtra

Associate Consultant (Pulmonology)

Anand Pandhare, Intensive Care Unit, S.L. Raheja Hospital, Mumbai, Maharashtra

Associate Consultant - ICU

Saseedharan, S., Pathrose, E. J., Kubal, V., & Pandhare, A. (2016). Unusual diagnosis of urinothorax: a case report. Chest Disease Reports, 6(1). https://doi.org/10.4081/cdr.6.6001

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