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Volume 344:939 March 22, 2001 Number 12
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Hematuria in a Patient with an Ileal Conduit and Hepatic Cirrhosis

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To the Editor: Hematuria can be caused by a variety of conditions, including cancer, infections, and calculi. We recently treated a patient with an ileal conduit and cirrhosis, who had hematuria due to ileal varices and who eventually required treatment with a transjugular intrahepatic portosystemic shunt.

A 66-year-old woman with a history of hepatitis C reported a four-month history of intermittent hematuria in her ileal conduit. Four years earlier, she had undergone a cystectomy and placement of an ileal conduit for bladder carcinoma. The patient's laboratory values on admission included a hemoglobin level of 6.7 g per deciliter, a platelet . . . [Full Text of this Article]

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