TITLE:
Hydrocarbon’s Chronic Kidney Disease
AUTHORS:
Pierre Eric Gandzali-Ngabe, Richard Loumingou, Hamadoun Yattara, Donatien Moukassa
KEYWORDS:
Hydrocarbon, Chronic Kidney Disease, The Republic of the Congo
JOURNAL NAME:
Open Journal of Nephrology,
Vol.10 No.1,
February
10,
2020
ABSTRACT: Hydrocarbons are dangerous for health, and American Society of Nephrology has already described renal involvement by Hydrocarbon. The Republic of Congo produces oil but there is no study among these working with hydrocarbon to evaluate their renal status. The patient of 39 years working for 5 years as carrier oil, with high exposure to oil or more than 2 hours per day. He has no history of herbal medicine, no edema, no diabetes, no high blood pressure and he was not suffering from infectious diseases and there was no concept of kidney disease in the family. He was hospitalized for febrile generalized tonic convulsions with impaired renal function. After patient stabilization, clinical and biological examinations allowed us to conclude the chronic glomerulonephritis syndrome in five stages of chronic kidney disease. As creatinine at the entrance was 195 mg/l, clearance was 3 ml/min 1.72 m2 by CKD-EPI. The entrance to the BUN was 3.57 g/l. The albumin to creatinine ratio of urinary of 300 mg/g (ACR) is a glomerular disease. HIV serology test was negative. The abdominal-pelvic ultrasound revealed dedifferentiated kidneys of normal size. The patient received 7 hemodialysis sessions with femoral right catheter with heparin. The evolution was good and the patient was enrolled in chronic hemodialysis. This interference could be regarded as an occupational disease and we wish early detection.