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What Causes Back Pain And Brownish Urine?
Question: Hi. My mother, 75 years old went to the hospital last month with severe lower back pain, and her urine was brown. There was no blood in the urine, and tests showed that her kidney's were functioning. They said her brown urine was caused by dehydration. They were going to take her for an MRI, and when they went in to the room, she had suffered a cardiac arrest. They got her back and put her in ICU. She was in multi-organ systems failure. Right now, the only organ that has not come back are her kidneys. She was on 24 hour dialysis at first, then started getting it every other day. Then she was fine for 5 days and went without dialysis. Now, she is back on dialysis every other day. Is it possible that the lower back pain and dark urine were caused by her kidney's starting to fail, but the test didn't show it and it caused her to go in to cardiac arrest. Also, what are the chances that her kidney function will return to normal over time? Her kidneys are making some urine, but not filtering toxins. Her kidney level is between 1.9 and 3.
Brief Answer:
Not to worry
Detailed Answer:
Hi,
Your mother is medically an interesting case and can be discussed formore than an hour provided most if the reports are available to us
Back ache doesn't mean that there is a kidney problem. absence if back ache deist rule out the presence of kidney problem. brown urine suggests there is either blood or the blood ligament in the urine. As you stated that there is no blood in the urine , it's possible that she has blood pigment which gives brown color but absent blood in urine test. it is calked hemolysis where in bred blood cells breakdown to produce sudden fall in hemiglibin leading to severe body spins including back ache, brine utine and a cardiac arrest due to increased potassium . what was hemoglibin at that time??
Obstruction to the urinary tract also can produce back ache but not a brown urine without blood in urine and can not be correlated with sudden cardiac arrest unless there is abnormal creatinine with sudden rise in potassium. what was the creatinine and potassium just prior to the cardiac arrest .
Was she suffering from any fever. , body aches , cough with expectoration , difficulty in passing urine etc prior to thus episode?
Some of the drugs can produce brown urine and can lead to cardiac problems . was she on any such drugs before?
Can you provide us with find of the reports available as many conclusions can not be given unless several conditions are ruled out one after another through history, examination and investigations fine methodically.
Waiting for your response,
Not to worry
Detailed Answer:
Hi,
Your mother is medically an interesting case and can be discussed formore than an hour provided most if the reports are available to us
Back ache doesn't mean that there is a kidney problem. absence if back ache deist rule out the presence of kidney problem. brown urine suggests there is either blood or the blood ligament in the urine. As you stated that there is no blood in the urine , it's possible that she has blood pigment which gives brown color but absent blood in urine test. it is calked hemolysis where in bred blood cells breakdown to produce sudden fall in hemiglibin leading to severe body spins including back ache, brine utine and a cardiac arrest due to increased potassium . what was hemoglibin at that time??
Obstruction to the urinary tract also can produce back ache but not a brown urine without blood in urine and can not be correlated with sudden cardiac arrest unless there is abnormal creatinine with sudden rise in potassium. what was the creatinine and potassium just prior to the cardiac arrest .
Was she suffering from any fever. , body aches , cough with expectoration , difficulty in passing urine etc prior to thus episode?
Some of the drugs can produce brown urine and can lead to cardiac problems . was she on any such drugs before?
Can you provide us with find of the reports available as many conclusions can not be given unless several conditions are ruled out one after another through history, examination and investigations fine methodically.
Waiting for your response,
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Dr. Raju A.T
Hi. Thank you for responding. Yes, she was having trouble passing urine a few days prior to her cardiac arrest. I'm not sure about a fever or body aches. The back pain started in her middle back, and then went down to her buttock area. I'm not sure about what her hemoglibin. My sister has all of that, and her medical records.
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Detailed Answer:
can you please submit done of the available reports so far as a discussion without those details would be of less value
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Detailed Answer:
can you please submit done of the available reports so far as a discussion without those details would be of less value
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