Retroperitoneal fibrosis

Retroperitoneal fibrosis
Retroperitoneal fibrosis (RPF) is the abnormal growth of white and woody tissue on and around the structures of the abdomen that are outside the peritoneum. These include blood vessels and ureters.

Retroperitoneal fibrosis
Alternate Names : Idiopathic retroperitoneal fibrosis, Ormond's disease
Definition ...

Retroperitoneal Fibrosis Causes, Symptoms and Treatment and Related Disorders ...

Retroperitoneal fibrosis is a rare disorder that occurs when extra fibrous tissue forms in the area behind the stomach and intestines. The excess tissue forms a mass (or masses) that can block the tubes that carry urine from the kidney to the bladder.

retroperitoneal fibrosis - a mass of fibrous tissue located towards the back of the abdomen near the kidneys. This mass may cause compression of the renal veins impeding normal blood flow.

Cases of retroperitoneal fibrosis, pulmonary infiltrates, pleural effusion, pleural thickening, and cardiac valvulopathy have been reported in some patients treated with ergot-derived dopaminergic agents.

Disorders that affect GI function: These disorders can interfere with digestion (eg, pancreatic insufficiency), absorption (eg, enteritis, enteropathy), or lymphatic transport of nutrients (eg, retroperitoneal fibrosis, Milroy's disease).

The most serious side effect of methysergide is retroperitoneal fibrosis (scarring of tissue around the ureters that carry urine from the kidneys to the bladder).

of the aorta, cocaine use, kidney inflammation, narrowed kidney arteries, migraine medications, haemolytic-uremic syndrome, Henoch-Schonlein purpura, periarteritis nodosa, pregnancy, radiation enteritis, Wilms' tumor, retroperitoneal fibrosis and ...

Complications from medical procedures
Diseases such as retroperitoneal fibrosis, retroperitoneal sarcomas, or cancers that spread to the lymph nodes near the ureters
Kidney stone disease
Radiation or chemotherapy
Trauma ...

A rare condition occasionally treated with tamoxifen is retroperitoneal fibrosis.

Bladder tumors
Prostate tumors
Tumors or masses of the uterus or other structures around the bladder neck or urethra
Retroperitoneal fibrosis
Narrowing of the urethra due to a birth defect or scar tissue ...

Retroperitoneal fibrosis
Progressive massive fibrosis, a complication of coal workers' pneumoconiosis
Proliferative fibrosis, neoplastic fibrosis
Tuberculosis (TB) can cause fibrosis of the lungs ...

5. Urinary Tract Obstruction - Calculous disease, prostatic disease, pelvic tumours and retroperitoneal fibrosis.

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Legionnaire's disease
Osteomyelitis
Pelvic inflammatory disease
Pericarditis after a heart attack
Retroperitoneal fibrosis
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Subacute thyroiditis
Scleroderma ...

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Retroperitoneal fibrosis
Retroperitoneal inflammation
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Idiopathic Renal Hematuria
Idiopathic Retroperitoneal Fibrosis
Idiopathic Thrombocythemia
Idiopathic Thrombocytopenic Purpura
idiopathic thrombocytosis
Idiopathic Warm Antibody Hemolytic Anemia
IDPA
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Idiopathic Retroperitoneal Fibrosis
Idiopathic Thrombocythemia
Idiopathic Thrombocytopenic Purpura
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idiopathic thrombocytosis
Idiopathic Warm Antibody Hemolytic Anemia
IDPA ...

See also: Fibrosis, Kidney, Cancer, Surgery, Symptom