Reflux in native kidneys mimicking urine leak postrenal transplant.
A 19-year man underwent live related renal transplantation for end-stage renal disease. He was referred for a baseline renal scan on day 4. The urine output was satisfactory and the serum creatinine showed a decreasing trend. Renal dynamic scintigraphy with technetium-99m ethylenedicysteine demonstrated radiotracer activity above the transplant kidney, suspected to be a urine leak. Postvoiding posterior, delayed images confirmed that the radiotracer activity in the anterior postvoiding images was the result of vesicoureteral reflux from the patient's native kidneys.
Tripathi
Madhavi
M
Department of Nuclear Medicine, All India Institute of Medical Sciences, New Delhi, India.
Chandrashekar
N
N
Kumar
Rakesh
R
Malhotra
Arun
A
D000328:Adult; D003937:Diagnosis, Differential; D006801:Humans; D007668:Kidney / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging*; D016030:Kidney Transplantation / Q000009:adverse effects / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging*; D008297:Male; D011877:Radionuclide Imaging; D014555:Urination Disorders / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging* / Q000209:etiology; D014718:Vesico-Ureteral Reflux / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging*