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nutcracker phenomenon nutcracker syndromenonglomerular hematuria due to compression of the left renal vein between the aorta and superior mesenteric artery; renal hilar varices, collateral veins, and proteinuria may be found. See: nutcracker. Synonym(s): nutcracker phenomenonA rare clinical complex which occurs in relatively young and previously healthy people, which is characterised by compression of the left renal vein (LRV) between the aorta and superior mesenteric artery (SMA), fancifully likened to the effect of a nutcracker, with the aorta and SMA each corresponding to an arm of the nutcracker and the LRV to the nut itself. The squeezing can lead to left renal vein hypertension, resulting in rupture of the thin walled vein into the renal calyceal fornix Diagnosis Left renal venography—gold standard test, CT, abdominal ultrasonography DiffDx Kidney stones, genitourinary malignancy, loin pain haematuria syndrome Management Nephrectomy, nephropexy, renocaval reimplantation, auto-transplantation, left renal vein transposition, stenting, gonadal vein embolisationnutcracker phenomenon Nutcracker syndrome A clinical finding in Hb SC disease, in which left-sided renal hemorrhage causes infarction of renal papillae, due to ↑ pressure as the left renal vein passes between the aorta and the superior mesenteric artery; ↑ pressure causes renal medullary hypoxia sufficient to sickle the RBCs |