title: [Ultrasonographic study on kidneys in patients with acute renal failure].
abstract: Ultrasonotomograms of 22 kidneys were obtained in 11 patients with renal-acute renal failure (renal-ARF). The underlying diseases of renal-ARF were acute tubular necrosis in 8 patients and acute on-set chronic glomerulonephritis in 3 patients. They were treated by hemodialysis in 10 patients and intermittent peritoneal dialysis in 1 patient. Ultrasonic measurement of the size of kidneys revealed that the thickness (anterior-posterior diameter) and the ratio of thickness to length (T/L) were greater in patients with ARF than in those with chronic renal failure and normal renal function. The patients with a low value of T/L (under 0.60) had a significantly greater urine volume than those with high a value of T/L (0.60 or more). The sonographic features of renal-ARF kidneys were marked increase in parenchymal echogenicity and appearance of hypoechoic swollen renal pyramids with sharpness of the corticomedullary border. In the course of ARF, these sonographic changes gradually disappeared when the patients had recovered from ARF. However, the prognosis was poor in patients with severer sonographic findings. We believe that repeated ultrasonic examination of the kidneys in patients with renal-ARF is useful for not only differential diagnosis of post-renal urinary obstruction but evaluating the course of ARF.
authors.affiliation: Department of Urology, Asahikawa Medical College.
authors.forename: S
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Yamaguchi
authors.forename: H
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Fujii
authors.forename: S
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Kaneko
authors.forename: S
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Yachiku
authors.forename: F
authors.initials: F
authors.lastname: Inada
authors.forename: T
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Anzai
authors.forename: T
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Kobayashi
authors.forename: K
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Furuta
authors.forename: H
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Ishida
mesh_terms: D058186:Acute Kidney Injury / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging* / Q000628:therapy; D000328:Adult; D000368:Aged; D003937:Diagnosis, Differential; D005260:Female; D005921:Glomerulonephritis / Q000150:complications / Q000628:therapy; D006801:Humans; D007683:Kidney Tubular Necrosis, Acute / Q000150:complications / Q000628:therapy; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D010530:Peritoneal Dialysis; D011379:Prognosis; D006435:Renal Dialysis; D014463:Ultrasonography