background renal scintigraphy with technetium 99m labeled dimercaptosuccinic acid (99mtc-dmsa) is a traditional imaging technique commonly used to detect renal scar in patients with probable vesicoureteral reflux (vur) and/or urinary tract infection (utis). we determined whether normal results of dmsa renal scan obviate the need for voiding cystourethrography (vcug) in evaluating children with ...

BACKGROUND/AIM Primary hyperparathyroidism (pHPT) is an endocrine disease with the third highest incidence of all endocrine disorders after diabetes mellitus and hyperthyroidism. pHPT is typically caused by a solitary parathyroid adenoma, less frequently by multiple parathyroid gland disease (MGD) and rarely by parathyroid carcinoma. Secondary hyperparatyroidism (sHPT) is a common complication ...

BACKGROUND Symptoms and signs of acute tubulointerstitial nephritis (ATIN) are nonspecific; therefore, renal biopsy is often necessary to clarify the diagnosis. The aim of this study was to evaluate the use of 99mTc-dimercaptosuccinic acid (DMSA) scintigraphy in the diagnosis and follow-up of ATIN. METHODS We retrospectively reviewed the charts of five patients (nine renal units) with a media...

UNLABELLED We performed Tc-99m MAG3 dynamic renal scintigraphy followed by a SPECT/CT imaging to a 38-yr-old woman who had a fistula in the lower urinary tract after a gynecological operation for diagnostic purposes. After scintigraphy, CT and fusion images were evaluated, it was observed that the activity in the right lower quadrant was actually in the ileal lumen. When early and late SPECT/CT...

A 73-year-old male was diagnosed with clear-cell renal carcinoma in 2002. He had right nephrectomy, developing thereafter metastases in both adrenal glands and in the right gluteus region. He received immunotherapy and remained with stable diseases until august 2011, when suddenly unfold an unstable condition, developing a renal failure with elevation of creatinine levels and need of dialysis. ...

A case of acute pulmonary embolism which developed one week after conservative surgery of the renal cyst is reported. He was 41 years old and had a long habit of cigarette smoking. He underwent wedge resection of the renal mass which was proved to be a multilocular renal cyst pathologically. The acute pulmonary embolism which developed on the seventh postoperative day was confirmed by lung scin...

BACKGROUND to determine the usefulness of Doppler ultrasound measurement of resistive index (RI) in differentiating obstructive from non-obstructive hydronephrosis in children. METHODS From August 2011 to November 2012, renal Doppler assessments of the intra-renal renal arteries were performed on 16 children (19 kidneys) with congenital hydronephrosis. the independent t-test was used to asses...

Abstract A 66-year-old woman showing renal dysfunction with elevated serum alkaline phosphatase and anti-SS-A antibody was admitted. A labial salivary gland biopsy showing infiltration of mononuclear cells and positive anti-SS-A antibody with sicca symptoms led to a diagnosis of primary Sjögren’s syndrome (SS). Fanconi’s syndrome was diagnosed by renal tubular acidosis along with renal glucosur...

complications (renal calculi and UTIs) or is discovered accidentally [3]. In the differential diagnosis, causes of obstructive uropathy and vesicoureteral reflux should be considered and excluded [5]. The diagnosis lies on the typical radiographic findings of the IVU [6] and renal ultrasonogram or CT scan, coupled to the normal wash-out pattern in renal scintigraphy [4–6]. Fluid intake should b...