Background. One of the life-threatening diseases among patients with a single kidney is acute purulent pyelonephritis (APP). The disease accompanied by oliguria or anuria and in many cases comes development multiple organ dysfunction. Objectives. To present features clinical manifestations APP solitary kidney, results laboratory examination, role imaging methods (USG, MRI contrast-enhanced CT) ...

Kidney size may be altered in renal diseases, and the detection of kidney size alteration has diagnostic and prognostic values. We hypothesized that radiographic kidney size, the kidney length to the second lumbar vertebra (L2) length ratio, in normal Miniature Schnauzer dogs may be overestimated due to their shorter vertebral length. This study was conducted to evaluate radiographic and ultras...

BACKGROUND Patients with symptomatic kidney stones are characterized by older age, male gender, white race, hypertension, obesity, metabolic syndrome and chronic kidney disease. Whether these characteristics differ in patients with asymptomatic kidney stones is unknown. METHODS All potential kidney donors who underwent protocol computed tomography angiograms/urograms (2000-08) at the Mayo Cli...

BACKGROUND Tuberous sclerosis (TSC) related tumors are characterized by constitutively activated mTOR signaling due to mutations in TSC1 or TSC2. METHODS We completed a phase 2 multicenter trial to evaluate the efficacy and tolerability of the mTOR inhibitor, sirolimus, for the treatment of kidney angiomyolipomas. RESULTS 36 adults with TSC or TSC/LAM were enrolled and started on daily siro...

BACKGROUND Cardiac disorders are very common in individuals with chronic kidney disease and are associated with morbimortality. OBJECTIVE To evaluate cardiac alterations after kidney transplantation. METHODS We prospectively evaluated 40 patients with chronic kidney disease, immediately before and one month, three months and six months after kidney transplantation, using tissue Doppler echo...

Objective- to assess the normal ultrasonographic findings of kidney in the Raiini goat. Design- Experimental study. Animals- 10 female Raiini goats. Procedures- .Necropsy was carried out and Kidneys were measured in length, width, and diameter after fixation in formalin. Ultrasonography was carried out by longitudinal and transversal planes to evaluate all renal structures. Echogenicity and ...