Colour-coded Doppler sonography in monitoring native kidney biopsies.
Two hundred and one patients had biopsies of their native kidneys with ultrasound-guided needle technique. They were evaluated on the second post-biopsy day with colour-coded Doppler sonography. Ten patients out of these 201 were found to have an arteriovenous fistula, which remained asymptomatic for the whole follow-up period (follow-ups ranged from 2 to 31 months). Four of these 10 patients developed a perirenal haematoma as well and five macroscopic haematuria. Our study shows that the systematic use of colour-coded Doppler sonography after renal biopsy facilitates diagnosis of arteriovenous renal fistula.
Rollino
C
C
Garofalo
G
G
Roccatello
D
D
Sorrentino
T
T
Sandrone
M
M
Basolo
B
B
Quattrocchio
G
G
Massara
C
C
Ferro
M
M
Picciotto
G
G
D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D000368:Aged; D001164:Arteriovenous Fistula / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging* / Q000209:etiology; D001707:Biopsy, Needle / Q000009:adverse effects*; D006406:Hematoma / Q000209:etiology; D006801:Humans; D007668:Kidney / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging / Q000473:pathology*; D007674:Kidney Diseases / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging / Q000209:etiology / Q000473:pathology*; D008875:Middle Aged; D008991:Monitoring, Physiologic; D011877:Radionuclide Imaging; D012077:Renal Artery / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging; D012082:Renal Veins / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging; D017263:Technetium Tc 99m Mertiatide; D018615:Ultrasonography, Doppler, Color
D017263:Technetium Tc 99m Mertiatide