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Published in Teck Yew Chin, Susan Cheng Shelmerdine, Akash Ganguly, Chinedum Anosike, Get Through, 2017
Teck Yew Chin, Susan Cheng Shelmerdine, Akash Ganguly, Chinedum Anosike
A 36-year-old woman with small cystic lesions identified in the liver when she had an ultrasound assessment a year ago underwent a CT urogram for renal colic. The CT urogram revealed speckled calcification in the medulla of both kidneys. Review of an old IVU showed a striated nephrogram and filling defects in the proximal right ureter. What is the most likely diagnosis? HyperparathyroidismMedullary sponge kidneyMedullary cystic diseaseAcquired renal cystic diseasePCKD
Shear wave elastography findings in Immunoglobulin A Nephropathy patients: is it more specific and sensitive for interstitial fibrosis or interstitial fibrosis/tubular atrophy?
Published in Renal Failure, 2020
Kenan Turgutalp, Yüksel Balcı, Caner Özer, Simge Bardak, İclal Gürses, Yasemin Karabulut, İlter Helvacı, Esra Dölarslan, Serap Demir, Ahmet Kıykım
For group 1, patients aged below 18 years, pregnant patients, renal transplant recipients, patients with diabetic kidney disease, patients with a body mass index > 35 kg/m2, congestive heart failure (CHF), acquired or congenital renal cysts, polycystic kidney disease, medullary cystic disease, medullary sponge kidney, renal vein thrombosis, nephrolithiasis, hydronephrosis, renal artery stenosis, renal mass, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD), Alzheimer’s disease, active infection, cerebrovascular disease (CVD), malignancy, cirrhosis, Parkinson’s disease, adrenal insufficiency, acute kidney injury, retroperitoneal hemorrhage, subcapsular hematoma, or intraparenchymal hemorrhage after renal biopsy and patients who declined to participate in the study were all excluded. Patients who had renal biopsy more than 1 week ago, and patients who initiated treatment within 1 week, secondary glomerular diseases, primary glomerular diseases other than IgAN, secondary IgAN, and crescentic IgAN were also excluded.