Parapelvic cysts are uncommon conditions that are usually found during autopsy. Their ultrasonographic appearance is similar to hydronephrosis. We report the case of a 46-year-old female with a 4-year history of vague flank pain and a previous history of bilateral moderate hydronephrosis. The patient was investigated by ultrasonography and non-enhanced CT scan, and finally diagnosed as bilatera...

Patients with vesicoureteral reflux (VUR), the retrograde flow of urine from bladder to kidney, are known experience renal scarring; this results in worsening function. Reflux nephropathy is a cause chronic kidney disease, and VUR has also been observed dialysis patients. major underlying precursor condition urinary tract infection (UTI) sometimes accompanied by hydronephrosis. However, there n...

AIMS The current study aims to assess the role of ultrasound (US) parameters in explaining the variance of hydronephrosis grades in reno-urinary anomalies, as well as their performance in quantifying the incidence of patients with uropathies. METHODS In this study 196 patients were prospectively included. All of them had renal/urinary tract anomalies and were recruited from 5992 US examined h...

PURPOSE To investigate hydronephrosis after the establishment of tubeless cutaneous ureterostomy by using our definition of the tubeless condition and our indications for catheter insertion. MATERIALS AND METHODS Twenty-eight (54 renal units) patients with both establishment of tubeless cutaneous ureterostomy 3 months after surgery and at least 12 months of follow-up were investigated in this...

A 77-year old woman visited the emergency room (ER) because of abdominal pain and severe diarrhea. She had undergone radiation therapy for cervical cancer 30 years earlier. Pertinent initial laboratory data included a serum urea nitrogen level of 90.9 mg/dL and a creatinine level of 4.1 mg/dL. Sigmoidoscopy showed circular ulceration with whitish exudates consistent with ischemic colitis in the...

The patient was born with bladder exstrophy and underwent multiple surgeries for its correction. Finally, she had ureterosigmoidostomy at the age of 9 years, which ultimately led her to live till reproductive age. The children born with this defect are capable of surviving till adult life. She was received by us with preterm labour, referred from Hafizabad. She also had hyperchloremic metabolic...

Simple hepatic cysts are common and most often asymptomatic. In symptomatic cases, hemorrhage, rupture, and infection are major complications. However, urinary tract obstruction caused by a simple hepatic cyst is rare. We treated an 82-year-old Japanese man with an infected giant hepatic cyst causing right hydronephrosis who had a past history of left nephrectomy for renal cell carcinoma. The p...

Bilateral hydronephrosis secondary to urinary obstruction leads to a buildup of back pressure in the urinary tract and may lead to impairment of renal function. Cases of giant hydronephrosis are rare and usually contain no more than 1-2 litres of fluid in the collecting system. Here, we report a rarely seen case with giant urinary bladder and bilateral giant hydronephrosis due to bladder neck o...

Duplex collecting system of the kidney is a common congenital anomaly urinary tract. It usually asymptomatic clinically with normal renal function. In rare instances, it may complicate giant hydronephrosis. The following case middle aged woman history recurrent tract infections (UTI) and flank pain diagnosed bilateral partial duplex complicated unusual non-functioning lower moiety left hydronep...

We performed a prospective study of patients with suspected ureteral colic to evaluate the test characteristics of bedside renal ultrasonography (US) performed by emergency physicians (EPs) for detecting hydronephrosis, and to evaluate how US can be used to predict the likelihood of nephrolithiasis. Thirteen EPs performed US, recorded the presence of hydronephrosis, and made an assessment of th...