title: Urinary reflux from ileal neobladder into a non-functioning kidney: detection during diuretic renography.
abstract: The importance of monitoring renal function in patients undergoing cystectomy and urinary diversion is well established. Dynamic renography using Tc-99m MAG3 in combination with furosemide challenge has been widely used to determine the differential function of the kidneys, occurrence of reflux as well as the patency of the outflow tract in this context. The authors have described here a patient in whom significant urinary reflux from the neo-bladder into the nonfunctioning kidney was demonstrated during MAG3 diuretic renography.
authors.affiliation: Department of Nuclear Medicine, Addenbrooke's Hospital, Cambridge, United Kingdom.
authors.forename: Lankanath
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Alwis
authors.forename: Frances
authors.initials: F
authors.lastname: Hampson
authors.forename: Davina
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Pawaroo
authors.forename: Kottekkattu
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Balan
mesh_terms: D000368:Aged; D004232:Diuretics; D006801:Humans; D007668:Kidney / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging* / Q000503:physiopathology*; D007677:Kidney Function Tests; D008297:Male; D011866:Radioisotope Renography; D013997:Time Factors; D001743:Urinary Bladder / Q000503:physiopathology*; D014547:Urinary Diversion
chemical_list: D004232:Diuretics