[A critical review of the variations in size of the kidney caused by increased diuresis in hypertensive patients (author's transl)].
The authors studied the validity of Wolf and Dorph's test (increase in size of the kidney with increased diuresis) performed during intravenous urography in hypertensive patients. The technical procedure is described, and the results reported: 1 032 kidneys were measured, of which 84 had been also examined by arteriography. The results are analyzed and compared to those obtained after the standard method of early consecutive films, with the following conclusions: -- the test is not as valid as is suggested by the authors who described it; -- the information supplied by the standard method is more consistent and precise; -- the results of these two series are not completely superimposable; -- that even if Wolf and Dorph's test can sometimes supply useful information, it must not be relied upon completely.
D003951:Diagnostic Errors; D004231:Diuresis / Q000187:drug effects; D005665:Furosemide / Q000494:pharmacology; D006801:Humans; D006973:Hypertension / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging*; D007668:Kidney / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging* / Q000187:drug effects / Q000473:pathology; D012078:Renal Artery Obstruction / Q000473:pathology; D014567:Urography
D005665:Furosemide
Les variations de taille du rein sous l'effet de l'hyperdiurèse dans l'hypertension artérielle. Etude critique.