Real-time sonoelastography (RSE) is a relatively new imaging technique that visualizes relative difference in tissue hardness by evaluating changes in local strain in response to external stress. Our aim was to evaluate the ability of investigators to use sonoelastography to detect differences in renal cortical stiffness and assess the relationship between stiffness and clinical-Doppler paramet...

Correlates of peripheral plasma renin activity were studied in 31 normotensive subjects and 93 untreated hypertensive patients. The latter were grouped according to apparent type of hypertension: essential (58), renovascular (21), renal parenchymal disease (11), and primary aldosteronism (3). Plasma renin activity was inversely correlated with total blood and plasma volumes in normal men, men w...

INTRODUCTION Urinary tract infection (UTI) is one of the most common bacterial infections in children that can be associated with renal parenchymal injuries and late scars. Dimercaptosuccinic acid (DMSA) renal scan is known as golden standard for detecting acute pyelonephritis (APN) that has a lot of difficulties and limitations. OBJECTIVES we designed this study the accuracy of one inflammat...

Correlates of peripheral plasma renin activity were studied in 31 normotensive subjects and 93 untreated hypertensive patients. The latter were grouped according to apparent type of hypertension: essential (58), renovascular (21), renal parenchymal disease (11), and primary aldosteronism (3). Plasma renin activity was inversely correlated with total blood and plasma volumes in normal men, men w...

Pseudoxanthoma elasticum is a rare, hereditary, multisystemic disease affecting the skin, eye, and cardiovascular system. Renal involvement is uncommon. We describe two cases of pseudoxanthoma elasticum (PXE) in two women with distinctive skin lesions and nephrocalcinosis that renal ultrasonography showed a characteristic pattern of dotted increased echogenicity in the corticomedullary junction...

A 38-year-old lady presented with two-week history of right loin pain, fever and marked weight loss. Physical examination revealed a toxic looking lady with a pointing abscess and a mass at her right loin region. Laboratory investigations shown leukocytosis and normochromic normocytic anaemia. A plain X ray of the abdomen did not show any calcification. A diagnosis of perinephric abscess was ma...

A 38-year-old man visited our institution for evaluation of proteinuria. Prior to this, the patient was diagnosed with hypertension. One year ago, the patient was admitted to our hospital because of gout on his right knee and proteinuria. At that time, aspiration of synovial fluid revealed positive intracellular and extracellular birefringent crystals by compensated polarized light microscopy. ...