CASE-REPORT - THE DIAGNOSTIC-VALUE OF CONTRAST-ENHANCED COMPUTED-TOMOGRAPHY IN ACUTE BILATERAL RENAL CORTICAL NECROSIS

Acute bilateral renal cortical necrosis is a relatively rare cause of acute renal failure accounting for only 2% of cases in the Western Wor ld. The pathophysiology of this condition is complex, but ultimately l eads to the destruction of the renal cortex with sparing of the renal medulla, A definitive diagnosis is based on renal histology. In this r eport we describe a patient in whom this diagnosis was made using cont rast-enhanced computed tomography as renal biopsy was contraindicated.