Compromiso renal en un paciente con esclerosis tuberosa

Tuberous sclerosis is an hereditary disease, autosomic dominant, multisystemic which appears with epileptic crisis, mental retardation, and benign tumors in brain and other vital organs such as kidneys, heart, eyes, lungs and skin. Objective. To describe the clinical characteristics and evolution of a patient with tuberous sclerosis. Design. Case report. Materials y methods. The medical record of a patient which was hospitalized at the Hospital Universitario San Ignacio for a cadaverous donor renal transplant with renal disease state 5 with tuberous sclerosis and kidney compromise was reviewed and described. Subsequently, existant literature of "tuberous sclerosis and renal transplant" in PubMed, Ovid and Highwire was reviewed. Conclusions. Tuberous sclerosis disease is not a common disease amongst us, with renal compromise given by angiomyolipomas, and progression to terminal state by renal failure, requiring dialysis support in the short term.