kidney stone disease has become more common in children, but it remains non diagnosed in a significant proportion of patients, due to a lack of notable signs and symptoms. all children with colicky abdominal pain or microscopic hematuria should be examined thoroughly for urolithiasis. patients’ histories in terms of family, medical, and drug and a thorough physical examination are required to b...

Introduction: We aimed to evaluate the intralobar renal arteries indexes using the Doppler ultrasonography indexes, which have become the established method of kidney monitoring, in living unrelated kidney donors during the postnephrectomy period. Materials and Methods: In this prospective study, we evaluated and followed up 34 living unrelated kidney donors. The Doppler ultrasonography indexes...

BACKGROUND Approximately 10-30% of IDDM patients develop diabetic nephropathy depending on the metabolic control. Previous examinations on the significance of the kidney size prior to the manifestation of nephropathy produced varying results. METHODS The present study, therefore, was designed to assess the correlation between sonographically determined kidney size and kidney function over 8 y...

Renal blood flow was elevated in convalescent burn patients shortly before discharge (992 +/- 112 mL/min/sq m in burn patients vs 551 +/- 37 mL/min/sq m in normal subjects; mean +/- SE). Autopsy studies demonstrated that renal enlargement was a constant feature of patients after a prolonged hospital course; the kidneys of 28 patients who died after 60 days of hospitalization weighed 241 +/- 10 ...

INTRODUCTION We aimed to evaluate the intralobar renal arteries indexes using the Doppler ultrasonography indexes, which have become the established method of kidney monitoring, in living unrelated kidney donors during the postnephrectomy period. MATERIALS AND METHODS In this prospective study, we evaluated and followed up 34 living unrelated kidney donors. The Doppler ultrasonography indexes...

PURPOSE To compare the kidney tumor size on radical nephrectomy pathology specimen with size estimated by computed tomography (CT) scan and ultrasonography. MATERIALS AND METHODS The tumor size on pathology specimen of 40 patients who had undergone radical nephrectomy at our center from March 2003 until March 2009 was compared with pre-operative CT scan and ultrasonography findings. The paire...

OBJECTIVE To examine the relationship between blood pressure and the size and shape of the kidneys in healthy volunteers from the community. DESIGN A cross-sectional community-based study of normal volunteers in Portsmouth City, Hampshire, UK. SUBJECTS Subjects numbered 185 (99 female), aged 19-66 years. RESULTS Blood pressure was higher in men, and in those with higher body mass index. B...

To the Editor: The percutaneous renal biopsy is an essential tool in the diagnosis and evaluation of kidney disease. Most renal biopsies are performed under direct ultrasound guidance with automated biopsy needles, techniques that have substantially reduced the risks of the procedure. However, the kidney biopsy still carries a considerable risk of bleeding complications. Although certain risk f...