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Comparison of 99Tcm dimercaptosuccinic acid scans and intravenous urography in children.

A retrospective comparison of 99Tcm dimercaptosuccinic acid (DMSA) scans and intravenous urograms (IVUs) was performed on a large, unselected paediatric population to assess critically the relative merits of these two techniques. A total of 205 children were studied, providing 388 kidneys for comparison. The studies agreed in 81%, both being normal in 39%, and both abnormal in 42%. In 28 kidneys (7%), the IVU was abnormal when the 99Tcm DMSA was normal. There was a collecting system abnormality in 27 kidneys, but 10 kidneys also showed a parenchymal abnormality. In all these the parenchymal abnormality was global thinning on the IVU, and the contralateral kidney was small. In 40 kidneys (10%) the 99Tcm DMSA was abnormal when the IVU was normal: the abnormalities demonstrated were predominantly focal defects. After excluding IVUs of poor diagnostic quality, only 14 kidneys (3.6%) showed this disparity. The important clinical subgroups are infection, with or without reflux (27 kidneys), hypertension (4) and neonates with poor renal function (2). The one false positive 99Tcm DMSA was a result of an anatomical variant. Global thinning in a "normal" kidney on a 99Tcm DMSA scan may be overlooked when the contralateral kidney is poorly functioning and small.

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A comparison of a non-ionic dimer, iodixanol with a non-ionic monomer, iohexol in low dose intravenous urography.

A prospective, double-blind study of 392 patients randomized into four groups was performed to establish whether diagnostic intravenous urograms could be obtained with a lower dose of iodine when using the dimeric, non-ionic contrast medium iodixanol compared with the monomeric, non-ionic iohexol. Patients received iodixanol or iohexol containing either 9 or 12 g of iodine (gI). The primary parameter was the diagnostic quality of the 6 min film, assessed in a blinded fashion, by consensus, by four radiologists. Iodixanol at both doses was diagnostic in over 90% of cases. Iohexol was only diagnostic in 74% (9 gI) and 81.8% (12 gI). Pairwise comparisons revealed that iodixanol 9 gI was significantly better than both iohexol 9 gI (p = 0.0005) and 12 gI (p = 0.014). No significant difference was present for different doses within the same contrast medium group. Iodixanol resulted in poorer bladder distension than iohexol. Iodixanol caused significantly less discomfort than iohexol.

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Intravenous urography and imaging of the urinary tract.

This article briefly reviews the commonly used radiological investigations of the renal tract. The intravenous urogram (IVU) is a widely available imaging technique and one of the first-line investigations, yet is often poorly understood by junior medical teams. This article therefore discusses the IVU in detail, and reviews the common pathologies seen using this technique.

Humans↗