Peanut-induced acute oxalate nephropathy with acute kidney injury

Hyeoncheol Park; Minseob Eom; Jae Won Yang; Byoung Geun Han; Seung Ok Choi; Jae Seok Kim

doi:10.1016/j.krcp.2014.03.003

Peanut-induced acute oxalate nephropathy with acute kidney injury

Kidney Res Clin Pract. 2014 Jun;33(2):109-11. doi: 10.1016/j.krcp.2014.03.003. Epub 2014 May 24.

Authors

Hyeoncheol Park¹, Minseob Eom², Jae Won Yang¹, Byoung Geun Han¹, Seung Ok Choi¹, Jae Seok Kim¹

Affiliations

¹ Division of Nephrology, Department of Internal Medicine, Yonsei University Wonju College of Medicine, Wonju, Korea.
² Department of Pathology, Yonsei University Wonju College of Medicine, Wonju, Korea.

Abstract

Oxalate nephropathy is commonly caused by ethylene glycol, vitamin C, and foods like star fruit that contain a lot of oxalate. Peanuts also have high oxalate contents. However, case reports of peanut-induced oxalate nephropathy are not common. Here, we describe a case of peanut-induced acute oxalate nephropathy with acute kidney injury and intend to demonstrate the conditions under which peanut-induced oxalate nephropathy is likely to occur.

Keywords: Acute kidney injury; Arechis hypogaea; Oxalates.