The purpose of this study is to evaluate our institutional outcomes for percutaneous nephrostomy tube placement in pregnant patients, including potential complications that require early exchange. Our standard routine exchanges non-pregnant patients 6 weeks. This aims define a time interval patients. A retrospective chart and imaging review was conducted 51 who received between January 1, 2012,...

OBJECTIVE In our study, the functional prognosis of kidneys with prenatal urinomas were investigated. MATERIAL AND METHODS Between 2006 and 2010, fetal urinomas were detected in 19 fetuses using prenatal ultrasonography (US), and the medical records were reviewed retrospectively. Of the 19 cases, the follow-up data were available for 10 fetuses. The gestational age at diagnosis, prognosis of ...

Methanol is toxic to embryos of mice and rats when inhaled by dams at high concentrations. The present studies examined methanol-induced developmental toxicity following inhalation exposure (6 hr/day) of pregnant CD-1 mice to 5000, 10,000 or 15,000 ppm either throughout organogenesis (GD 6-15), during the period of neural tube development and closure (GD 7-9), or during a time of potential neur...

UNLABELLED We investigated the value of supranormal function and renogram patterns on (99m)Tc-mercaptoacetyltriglycine ((99m)Tc-MAG3) scintigraphy in relation to the extent of hydronephrosis for predicting ureteropelvic junction (UPJ) obstruction in the newborn. METHODS We studied 48 patients with prenatally diagnosed unilateral hydronephrosis that was confirmed on postnatal ultrasonography. ...

Infantile hydronephrosis detected by ultrasonography poses a clinical dilemma on how to treat the condition. This article reports a retrospective study to evaluate infantile hydronephrosis due to suspected ureteropelvic junction (UPJ) obstruction by means of standardized diuretic renography and to speculate its usefulness for quantitative assessment and management of this condition. Between Nov...

PURPOSE To correlate sonographic renal parenchymal measurements among patients with ureteropelvic junction obstruction (UPJO) labeled society of fetal urology (SFU) hydronephrosis grades 1-4 and to examine whether sonographic renal parenchymal measurements could be used to differentiate conservative vs. surgical management. MATERIALS AND METHODS Retrospective chart review and sonographic rena...

conclusions inter-rater accuracy could be improved at middle grades using renal ultrasonography (usg), which could promote communication between different specialists. results the intraclass correlation coefficient (icc) values ranging from 0.86 to 0.89 reflected good reliability. the lowest agreement was associated with middle grades (iii and iv). a marked difference in sensitivity was observe...

Exposure to the environmental contaminant, 2,3,7,8-tetrachlorodibenzo-p-dioxin (TCDD), produces hydronephrosis in developing mice, the etiology of which involves hyperplasia within the ureteric luminal epithelium. Dysregulation of epidermal growth factor receptor (EGFR), EGF, and transforming growth factor-alpha expression has been implicated as playing a role in TCDD-induced hydronephrosis. In...

introduction: cloacal malformation is an extremely rare fetal pathological condition but an important anomaly that presents as a variety of defects. it predominantly affects females, with prevalence of 1 in 50,000 births. prenatal ultrasonography usually showed oligohydramnios and the fetus having a large cystic mass in the lower abdomen with a single septum, bilateral hydronephrosis, ambiguous...