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ArticleCureus2025

Spontaneous Distal Ureteric Rupture in a Young Patient With Fragile X Syndrome.

Haadia Safdar, Mecaelan Sardar, Fuad Shaukat, Ammar Sarwar Abbasi, Maria Tunio

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Article in Cureus, 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Not yet cited in PubMed.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

5 authors.

Haadia SafdarUrology, Medway NHS Foundation Trust, Gillingham, GBR.
Mecaelan SardarUrology, Medway NHS Foundation Trust, Gillingham, GBR.
Fuad ShaukatEmergency Department, University Hospitals Plymouth NHS Trust, Plymouth, GBR.
Ammar Sarwar AbbasiUrology, Medway NHS Foundation Trust, Gillingham, GBR.
Maria TunioUrology, Medway NHS Foundation Trust, Gillingham, GBR.

Funding

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

This report describes the case of a patient in her late teens with fragile X syndrome, developmental delay, and recurrent urinary tract infections who presented to the emergency department with a productive cough, weight loss, and being generally unwell over the past few weeks. She was found to have a firm, distended abdomen and, while being investigated for sepsis of unknown source, deteriorated rapidly and was intubated and ventilated in the intensive care unit (ICU). After multiple imaging studies, she was diagnosed with left ureteric rupture secondary to a left distal ureteric calculus, resulting in a urinoma in the left retroperitoneal space. An interventional radiology-guided drain was inserted to drain the urinoma, and a left nephrostomy and anterograde ureteric stent were inserted. Her condition improved after these interventions, and she was later extubated and discharged from the ICU to the general ward.

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fragile x mental retardation 1fragile x syndromeproximal ureter stonespontaneous ureteric ruptureureter rupture

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PMID40062023
PMCPMC11890258

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