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Bentley C, Williams TL, Constantino-Casas F, Genain MA. The ultrasonographic appearance of renal medullary striations and their association with renal disease and renal histopathology in domestic cats. Vet Radiol Ultrasound 2023; 64:314-321. [PMID: 36281213 DOI: 10.1111/vru.13177] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/03/2022] [Revised: 08/14/2022] [Accepted: 08/16/2022] [Indexed: 11/29/2022] Open
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Medullary striations (MS) have been anecdotally observed on ultrasound of feline kidneys; however, their significance is unknown. Aims of this retrospective, case control, pilot study were to describe the appearance, prevalence, and clinicopathological correlates of MS in a referral feline population. Still images from 1247 feline abdominal ultrasound studies performed between 2011 and 2021 were reviewed. Cats with MS were identified and compared with age-matched controls. Serum urea, creatinine, calcium, phosphate, and calcium-phosphate-product, plus urine specific gravity, urine protein: creatinine ratio (UPC), prevalence of active sediment (defined as > 5 red (RBC) or white blood cells (WBC) per high-power field) and prevalence of positive urine culture were compared between MS and control groups using the Mann-Whitney U test or Fisher's Exact test. Data are presented as median [range]. 27 cats were identified as having MS, giving a prevalence of 2.2% with a significantly higher proportion being seen in males (P = 0.018). Medullary striation cats had significantly higher UPC values than controls (0.46 [0.16-7.57] vs. 0.16 [0.07-2.27]; P = 0.006). Cats with MS were more likely to have active urinary sediments (39% vs 8%, P = 0.023), but no difference in prevalence of positive urinary cultures was observed between groups. There was no significant difference in other parameters between MS and control cats. Renal histopathology performed in three MS cats revealed focal regions of linear medullary fibrosis. Medullary striations are associated with proteinuria and urinary tract inflammation in cats, which may reflect renal tubular dysfunction and/or inflammation. Hence identification might allow for earlier detection of renal pathology.
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- Carli Bentley
- The Queen's Veterinary School Hospital. Department of Veterinary Medicine, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK
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- The Queen's Veterinary School Hospital. Department of Veterinary Medicine, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK
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- The Queen's Veterinary School Hospital. Department of Veterinary Medicine, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK
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- The Queen's Veterinary School Hospital. Department of Veterinary Medicine, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK
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S Alrashdi J, A Hashim H, Z Mahmoud M, K Alosaimi F, Alonazi B, Alsaadi M, M A Zidan M, Saeed Alghamdi S. The Spectrum of Renal Pathologies in Saudi Pediatrics Patients Using Ultrasound. Pak J Biol Sci 2020; 23:1614-1620. [PMID: 33274894 DOI: 10.3923/pjbs.2020.1614.1620] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/12/2023]
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BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVE The Kingdom of Saudi Arabia (KSA) has a high population of children with hereditary renal infections whose factors are linked to the X chromosomes. This study aims to determine the spectrum of renal pathologies in Saudi pediatrics patients as well as to link the genetic aspect to the development of renal diseases in Saudi children by using ultrasound. MATERIALS AND METHODS The study, hence sought to analyze the outcomes of a cross-sectional retrospective study report at the Radiology department of King Fahad Medical City (KFMC) within 12 months retrogressively. Data was collected using ultrasound machines with B-mode and Doppler modes used to generate results that were later filled in forms. RESULTS Demographic characteristics showed that even though the study incorporated the children between the ages of 1-14 years, renal infection was most prevalent in children between the ages 4-7 years. The study revealed that male children were at a higher risk of getting a hereditary renal infection compared to their female counterparts. Indications for renal ultrasound examination of the study samples indicated that the ectopic renal disease affected 2% of the 50 sample size, while hydronephrosis affected 26% of the sample. CONCLUSION The current study was able to successfully highlight the role of ultrasound in the detection of a wide range of renal diseases among Saudi children. Additionally, this study attempted to link the genetic aspect to the development of renal diseases in Saudi children, but the use of ultrasound alone was not very helpful in this.
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Chung EM, Conran RM, Schroeder JW, Rohena-Quinquilla IR, Rooks VJ. From the radiologic pathology archives: pediatric polycystic kidney disease and other ciliopathies: radiologic-pathologic correlation. Radiographics 2015; 34:155-78. [PMID: 24428289 DOI: 10.1148/rg.341135179] [Citation(s) in RCA: 39] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/27/2022]
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Genetic defects of cilia cause a wide range of diseases, collectively known as ciliopathies. Primary, or nonmotile, cilia function as sensory organelles involved in the regulation of cell growth, differentiation, and homeostasis. Cilia are present in nearly every cell in the body and mutations of genes encoding ciliary proteins affect multiple organs, including the kidneys, liver, pancreas, retina, central nervous system (CNS), and skeletal system. Genetic mutations causing ciliary dysfunction result in a large number of heterogeneous phenotypes that can manifest with a variety of overlapping abnormalities in multiple organ systems. Renal manifestations of ciliopathies are the most common abnormalities and include collecting duct dilatation and cyst formation in autosomal recessive polycystic kidney disease (ARPKD), cyst formation anywhere in the nephron in autosomal dominant polycystic kidney disease (ADPKD), and tubulointerstitial fibrosis in nephronophthisis, as well as in several CNS and skeletal malformation syndromes. Hepatic disease is another common manifestation of ciliopathies, ranging from duct dilatation and cyst formation in ARPKD and ADPKD to periportal fibrosis in ARPKD and several malformation syndromes. The unifying molecular pathogenesis of this emerging class of disorders explains the overlap of abnormalities in disparate organ systems and links diseases of widely varied clinical features. It is important for radiologists to be able to recognize the multisystem manifestations of these syndromes, as imaging plays an important role in diagnosis and follow-up of affected patients.
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- Ellen M Chung
- From the Department of Radiology and Radiological Sciences (E.M.C.) and Department of Pathology (R.M.C.), F. Edward Hébert School of Medicine, Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences, 4301 Jones Bridge Rd, Bethesda, MD 20814; Pediatric Radiology Section, American Institute for Radiologic Pathology, Silver Spring, Md (E.M.C.); Department of Radiology, Walter Reed National Military Medical Center, Bethesda, Md (J.W.S., I.R.R.Q.); and Department of Radiology, Tripler Army Medical Center, Honolulu, Hawaii (V.J.R.)
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Epelman M, Daneman A, Donnelly LF, Averill LW, Chauvin NA. Neonatal Imaging Evaluation of Common Prenatally Diagnosed Genitourinary Abnormalities. Semin Ultrasound CT MR 2014; 35:528-54. [DOI: 10.1053/j.sult.2014.07.004] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/19/2022]
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Rajanna DK, Reddy A, Srinivas NS, Aneja A. Autosomal recessive polycystic kidney disease: antenatal diagnosis and histopathological correlation. J Clin Imaging Sci 2013; 3:13. [PMID: 23814685 PMCID: PMC3690676 DOI: 10.4103/2156-7514.109733] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/23/2013] [Accepted: 02/07/2013] [Indexed: 12/19/2022] Open
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Autosomal recessive polycystic kidney disease (ARPKD) is one of the most common inheritable disease manifesting in infancy and childhood with a frequency of 1:6,000 to 1:55,000 births. The patient in her second trimester presented with a history of amenorrhea. Ultrasound examination revealed bilateral, enlarged, hyperechogenic kidneys, placentomegaly, and severe oligohydramnios. The pregnancy was terminated. An autopsy was performed on the fetus. Both the kidneys were found to be enlarged and the cut surface showed numerous cysts. The liver sections showed changes due to fibrosis. The final diagnosis of autosomal recessive polycystic kidney disease was made based on these findings. In this article, we correlate the ante-natal ultrasound and histopathological findings in autosomal recessive polycystic kidney disease.
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- Department of Pathology, MVJ Medical College and Research Hospital, Karnataka, India
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- Department of Radiology, MVJ Medical College and Research Hospital, Karnataka, India
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- Department of Radiology, MVJ Medical College and Research Hospital, Karnataka, India
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Jang DG, Chae H, Shin JC, Park IY, Kim M, Kim Y. Prenatal diagnosis of autosomal recessive polycystic kidney disease by molecular genetic analysis. J Obstet Gynaecol Res 2011; 37:1744-7. [PMID: 21790888 DOI: 10.1111/j.1447-0756.2011.01594.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 9] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/29/2022]
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A 27-year-old primigravida was referred for evaluation of severe oligohydramnios at 22 weeks of gestation. For a more accurate diagnosis and detection of other fetal anomalies, complementary fetal magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) was performed. Findings of fetal MRI evaluation were consistent with autosomal recessive polycystic kidney disease (ARPKD). Parental mutation analysis in the PKHD1 gene was performed. By PKHD1 mutation analysis, we were able to identify a heterozygous missense mutation in exon 20 (K626R) in the father. Molecular genetic analysis can be helpful for an early and reliable prenatal diagnosis of ARPKD. Herein, we present a case of ARPKD that was diagnosed at 22 weeks of gestation by ultrasonographic examination and MRI and verified by PKHD1 mutation analysis and array-based genetic deletion analysis.
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- Dong Gyu Jang
- Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, College of Medicine, The Catholic University of Korea, Seoul, Korea
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Daneman A, Navarro OM, Somers GR, Mohanta A, Jarrín JR, Traubici J. Renal pyramids: focused sonography of normal and pathologic processes. Radiographics 2011; 30:1287-307. [PMID: 20833851 DOI: 10.1148/rg.305095222] [Citation(s) in RCA: 27] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/11/2022]
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In neonates and children, sonographic examinations of the renal pyramids may depict a spectrum of unique changes in echogenicity due to the effects of physiologic processes or a wide variety of pathologic processes that may affect the collecting ducts or interstitium of the pyramids. Focused sonographic evaluation of the pyramids with high-frequency transducers produces the most detailed images of the pyramids, revealing some appearances not previously reported, to the authors' knowledge. The authors highlight the clinical settings in which they have documented detailed changes in the echogenicity of the pyramids. The patterns of altered echogenicity alone may reflect a specific cause but in many instances are nonspecific, with clinical and biochemical correlation required to establish a more precise diagnosis. However, there is a lack of histologic data to completely explain the mechanism of many of these changes in echogenicity in all of the processes. As the authors have expanded their use of the focused sonographic technique, they have been able to depict altered echogenicity in the pyramids in greater numbers of children in whom an explanation for the changes is not always immediately apparent; for now, the cause must be considered idiopathic. More work is required to expand the use of this focused technique together with clinical, biochemical, and histologic correlation in an attempt to offer more complete explanations for the changes in echogenicity of the pyramids.
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- Alan Daneman
- Department of Diagnostic Imaging, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada.
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Avni FE, Hall M. Renal cystic diseases in children: new concepts. Pediatr Radiol 2010; 40:939-46. [PMID: 20432012 DOI: 10.1007/s00247-010-1599-5] [Citation(s) in RCA: 21] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/26/2010] [Accepted: 01/31/2010] [Indexed: 12/19/2022]
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This review highlights the changes that have occurred in the general approach to cystic renal diseases in children. For instance, genetic mutations at the level of the primary cilia are considered as the origin of many renal cystic diseases. Furthermore, these diseases are now included in the spectrum of the hepato-renal fibrocystic diseases. Imaging plays an important role as it helps to detect and characterize many of the cystic diseases based on a detailed sonographic analysis. The diagnosis can be achieved during fetal life or after birth. Hyperechoic kidneys and/or renal cysts are the main sonographic signs leading to such diagnosis. US is able to differentiate between recessive and dominant polycystic kidney diseases, hepatocyte nuclear factor 1 Beta mutation, glomerulocystic kidneys and nephronophtisis. MR imaging can, in selected cases, provide additional information including the progressive associated hepatic changes.
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- Fred E Avni
- Departments of Medical Imaging and Pediatric Nephrology, University Clinics of Brussels-Erasme Hospital, 808 Route de Lennik, 1070 Brussels, Belgium.
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Lennerz JK, Spence DC, Iskandar SS, Dehner LP, Liapis H. Glomerulocystic kidney: one hundred-year perspective. Arch Pathol Lab Med 2010; 134:583-605. [PMID: 20367310 DOI: 10.5858/134.4.583] [Citation(s) in RCA: 31] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/06/2022]
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CONTEXT Glomerular cysts, defined as Bowman space dilatation greater than 2 to 3 times normal size, are found in disorders of diverse etiology and with a spectrum of clinical manifestations. The term glomerulocystic kidney (GCK) refers to a kidney with greater than 5% cystic glomeruli. Although usually a disease of the young, GCK also occurs in adults. OBJECTIVE To assess the recent molecular genetics of GCK, review our files, revisit the literature, and perform in silico experiments. DATA SOURCES We retrieved 20 cases from our files and identified more than 230 cases published in the literature under several designations. CONCLUSIONS Although GCK is at least in part a variant of autosomal dominant or recessive polycystic kidney disease (PKD), linkage analysis has excluded PKD-associated gene mutations in many cases of GCK. A subtype of familial GCK, presenting with cystic kidneys, hyperuricemia, and isosthenuria is due to uromodullin mutations. In addition, the familial hypoplastic variant of GCK that is associated with diabetes is caused by mutations in TCF2, the gene encoding hepatocyte nuclear factor-1beta. The term GCK disease (GCKD) should be reserved for the latter molecularly recognized/inherited subtypes of GCK (not to include PKD). Review of our cases, the literature, and our in silico analysis of the overlapping genetic entities integrates established molecular-genetic functions into a proposed model of glomerulocystogenesis; a classification scheme emerged that (1) emphasizes the clinical significance of glomerular cysts, (2) provides a pertinent differential diagnosis, and (3) suggests screening for probable mutations.
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- Jochen K Lennerz
- Department of Pathology and Immunology, Washington University, St Louis, Missouri 63110, USA
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Okumura M, Bunduki V, Shiang C, Schultz R, Zugaib M. Unusual sonographic features of ARPKD. Prenat Diagn 2006; 26:330-2. [PMID: 16491512 DOI: 10.1002/pd.1410] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/10/2022]
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The classic sonographic appearance of the kidneys in fetuses with autosomal recessive polycystic kidney disease (ARPKD) has been well described. We report a case of enlarged kidneys with pyramidal hyperechogenicity quite similar to medullary nephrocalcinosis found in a fetus at 34 weeks' gestation. At 39 weeks, a female neonate was delivered and died after 22 h due to pulmonary insufficiency secondary to severe oligohydramnios. On pathological analysis, the gross and microscopic findings were typical of ARPKD with diffuse dilatation of tubules throughout. The fetal renal lobulation was prominent and on section, the pyramids were delineated within each lobule, accounting for the clear image of the pyramids observed on sonography.
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- Maria Okumura
- Department of Obstetrics, Hospital das Clínicas da Faculdade de Medicina da Universidade de São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil.
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- F E Avni
- Département d'imagerie médicale, cliniques universitaires de Bruxelles, hôpital Erasme, route de Lennik 808, 1070 Bruxelles, Belgique.
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Avni FE, Garel L, Cassart M, Massez A, Eurin D, Didier F, Hall M, Teele RL. Perinatal assessment of hereditary cystic renal diseases: the contribution of sonography. Pediatr Radiol 2006; 36:405-14. [PMID: 16463027 DOI: 10.1007/s00247-005-0075-0] [Citation(s) in RCA: 28] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/05/2005] [Revised: 11/08/2005] [Accepted: 11/12/2005] [Indexed: 12/14/2022]
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The aims of this review article were to clarify the steps that may lead to a proper diagnosis of fetal and neonatal renal cystic diseases. All the hereditary cystic diseases are reviewed and a classification is proposed. The various sonographic patterns that can be used to ascertain the diagnosis are also reviewed. Finally, tables with differential diagnoses are presented to help the reader in the work-up of such pathologies.
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- Fred E Avni
- Department of Medical Imaging, Erasme Hospital, Route de Lennik 808, 1070, Brussels, Belgium.
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Gassner I. [Fetal genitourinary anomalies Perinatal and postnatal management with imaging techniques]. Radiologe 2005; 45:1067-77. [PMID: 16151730 DOI: 10.1007/s00117-005-1237-7] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/16/2022]
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Improvements in ultrasound technology and the appropriate timing of antenatal ultrasound has led to refined prenatal diagnosis and enhanced accuracy of diagnosis of fetal renal anomalies and makes it possible to treat obstructive and/or refluxing uropathies before the onset of clinical symptoms. The third trimester renal sonography is the most important to detect hydronephrosis amenable to treatment.Classically, the prenatal diagnosis of hydronephrosis, unilateral renal agenesis, or MDKD initiates postnatal investigations, including sonography, voiding cystourethrography (VCUG), and isotopic renography. The exact degree of renal pelvic dilatation that requires full postnatal investigation is still not entirely resolved. Most authors accept the upper limit of 7 mm for the AP diameter of the renal pelvis. The US examination should be performed after the physiological dehydration period, namely 3-5 days after birth, in an urgent case on the 1st day. A meticulous ultrasound examination performed by a physician who is familiar with the renal abnormalities shows the whole extent of underlying pathology. The role of MR urography in the work-up of renal anomalies, particularly of hydronephrosis, is currently being investigated. Due to the close developmental relationship of the urinary and genital tracts, malformations frequently occur in both of these systems. Therefore in all patients, especially in girls with renal anomalies (unilateral renal agenesis, multicystic dysplastic kidney disease), the internal genitalia need to be evaluated.
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- I Gassner
- Abteilung Kinderradiologie, Universitätsklinik für Kinder- und Jugendheilkunde, Innsbruck, Osterreich.
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Traubici J, Daneman A. High-Resolution Renal Sonography in Children with Autosomal Recessive Polycystic Kidney Disease. AJR Am J Roentgenol 2005; 184:1630-3. [PMID: 15855129 DOI: 10.2214/ajr.184.5.01841630] [Citation(s) in RCA: 23] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/18/2022]
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OBJECTIVE Our objective was to describe the spectrum of renal findings using a high-frequency linear array transducer in patients with autosomal recessive polycystic kidney disease (ARPKD). CONCLUSION There is a spectrum of findings in the kidney in patients with ARPKD that is very well depicted using the high-resolution technique described in this article.
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- Jeffrey Traubici
- Department of Diagnostic Imaging, The Hospital for Sick Children, The University of Toronto, 555 University Ave., Toronto, Ontario M5S 1A1, Canada.
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Stein-Wexler R, Jain K. Sonography of macrocysts in infantile polycystic kidney disease. JOURNAL OF ULTRASOUND IN MEDICINE : OFFICIAL JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN INSTITUTE OF ULTRASOUND IN MEDICINE 2003; 22:105-107. [PMID: 12523616 DOI: 10.7863/jum.2003.22.1.105] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/24/2023]
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The typical sonographic appearance of autosomal recessive polycystic kidney disease (ARPKD) has been described as symmetrically enlarged, echogenic kidneys with occasional visualization of small cysts. Modern sonographic equipment, however, allows a greater ability to show parenchymal detail, and multiple tiny cysts and occasionally dilated tubular structures have become apparent. In this report, we describe sonographic findings of ARPKD that are quite similar to the macroscopic appearance. Sonographic images show unusual focal rosettes consisting of a cluster of the radially oriented, dilated collecting tubules that are apparent on pathologic evaluation. It is important to recognize the focal rosette as a manifestation of ARPKD.
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- Rebecca Stein-Wexler
- Department of Radiology, University of California, Davis Medical Center, University of California Davis Children's Hospital, 4860 Y St, Suite 3100, Sacramento, CA 95817, USA
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Congenital and acquired renal diseases that can produce renal insufficiency during the neonatal period may be classified according to their ultrasonographic (US) characteristics: increased parenchymal echogenicity (renal parenchymal diseases, angiotensin-converting enzyme inhibitor fetopathy, cortical necrosis), cystic disease (glomerulocystic kidney disease, autosomal recessive polycystic renal disease, multicystic dysplastic kidney, cystic renal dysplasia), obstructive uropathies (ureteropelvic junction obstruction, posterior urethral valves), infections (candidal infections and bezoars), and renal agenesis. High-resolution sector and linear-array transducers allow characterization of the underlying pathologic conditions in many cases. Findings of renal parenchymal disease will vary at Doppler US and, during the acute phase, diastolic flow can be decreased, absent, or reversed. In patients with glomerulocystic kidney disease, US shows bilaterally enlarged kidneys with diffusely increased echogenicity and retention of a reniform contour, loss of corticomedullary differentiation, and cortical cysts. Obstruction of the ureteropelvic junction, the most common cause of hydronephrosis in neonates, can be seen at US as a dilated renal pelvis with dilated and communicating calices, lack of dilatation in the distal portion of the ureter, changes of renal dysplasia with increased echogenicity of the renal parenchyma, and parenchymal cysts, depending on the severity and duration of the obstruction. High-resolution US provides improved characterization of the renal parenchyma and more precise description of renal architecture.
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- Maria-Gisela Mercado-Deane
- Department of Radiology, University of Texas-Houston Medical School, 6431 Fannin, MSB2.100, Houston, TX 77030, USA.
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Nicolau C, Torra R, Badenas C, Pérez L, Oliver JA, Darnell A, Brú C. Sonographic pattern of recessive polycystic kidney disease in young adults. Differences from the dominant form. Nephrol Dial Transplant 2000; 15:1373-8. [PMID: 10978393 DOI: 10.1093/ndt/15.9.1373] [Citation(s) in RCA: 26] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/13/2022] Open
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BACKGROUND To study the sonographic pattern of autosomal recessive polycystic kidney disease (ARPKD) in early adulthood in order to identify imaging criteria to diagnose this disease and to distinguish between recessive and autosomal dominant polycystic kidney disease (ADPKD) in that age group. METHODS An abdominal ultrasound was performed on four ARPKD subjects (with a mean age of 20.2) and on 33 ADPKD subjects in early adulthood (29 without renal failure with a mean age of 20.5, and four with renal failure with a mean age of 26.5). Linkage studies with ADPKD and ARPKD markers were compatible with the clinical diagnosis in all cases. RESULTS The renal sonographic features in ARPKD subjects included multiple small cysts in a normal-sized kidney, increased cortical echogenicity and loss of corticomedullary differentiation. In ADPKD subjects without renal failure, sonographic features included few or multiple cysts of different sizes, in normal-sized kidneys in 22 out of 29 patients (75.8%), normal cortical echogenicity and conserved corticomedullary differentiation, except in patients with nephromegaly. All ADPKD subjects with renal failure had nephromegaly and loss of corticomedullary differentiation. The hepatic sonographic features in ARPKD patients included portal fibrosis and in some cases Caroli's disease, while in ADPKD patients a normal hepatic echostructure was detected in all but one case, in addition to simple hepatic cysts in a few cases. CONCLUSIONS The evaluation of the sonographic features of the kidneys and those of the liver may help in the differential diagnosis between ARPKD and ADPKD in early adulthood.
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- C Nicolau
- Imaging Diagnosis Center (Ultrasound Unit), Hospital Clínic, IDIBAPS (Institut d'Investigacions Biomèdiques August Pi i Sunyer), University of Barcelona, Spain.
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