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Kidney Imaging Studies Flashcards

For each imaging study, give the diagnosis possible and/or what it assesses Number of answers listed

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What is a kidney ultrasound a diagnosis of? (2) What does it asses? (3)

A

Diagnoses Obstructive Kidney Disease and Polycystic Kidney Disease
Assesses:
Enlarged kidney size in diabetic nephropathy, small kidney in chronic kidney disease, assymetric size in renovascular disease

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What is a kidney doppler diagnostic of? (2)

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Renovascular disease or Kidney Vein thrombosis

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What is Radioisotope kidney scan diagnostic of? (2) What does it asses? (1)

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Diagnosis renovascular disease or obstructive uropathy and asseses split kidney function

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What does a CT scan asses? (2)

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Kidney masses, atypical kidney cysts

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What does magnetic resonance angiography diagnose?

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Renovascular disease

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What does Kidney Angiography diagnose? (3)

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Renovascular disease (Gold Standard!), Kidney artery thrombosis/thromboembolism, polyarteritis nodosa

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What does a retrograde ureterogram diagnose?

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Upper Tract Obstructions

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What does an intravenous pyelogram do?

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It is not indicated in kidney insufficiency

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