You are here

Article Text

Article menu
Images In...
Dynamic renogram with 99mTc DTPA in patient with adult polycystic kidney disease
Free
  1. Irina Mezheritskiy1,
  2. Gary Stuart Greene2
  1. 1Pennsylvania Hospital, Radiology, 800 Spruce Street, Philadelphia, PA 19107, USA
  2. 2Pennsylvania Hospital, University of Penn Health System, Radiology & Nuclear Medicine, 800 Spruce Street, Philadelphia, PA 19107, USA
  1. Correspondence to Gary Stuart Greene, garygreenest65{at}yahoo.com

http://dx.doi.org/10.1136/bcr.11.2009.2475

Statistics from Altmetric.com

    Request Permissions

    If you wish to reuse any or all of this article please use the link below which will take you to the Copyright Clearance Center’s RightsLink service. You will be able to get a quick price and instant permission to reuse the content in many different ways.

    Description

    A 40-year-old man presented with chronic renal failure for follow-up on differential renal function.

    15 mCi of 99mTc DTPA were injected and flow phase, perfusion and excretion phases were obtained and examined. There was delayed radiotracer excretion in keeping with reduced glomerular filtration rate. The delayed images demonstrated enlarged, distorted renal collecting systems bilaterally (tracer accumulation wthin peripelvic cysts) (fig 1). Selected axial CT image through the abdomen was also available for anatomic correlation and demonstrated severe enlargement of both kidneys due to multiple cysts (fig 2).

    Figure 2
    Figure 2

    Axial computed tomography image through the kidneys.

    Further reading

    1. Dubovsky EV, Russell CD. Quantitation of renal function with glomerular and tubular agents. Semin Nucl Med 1982; 12: 308–329.

    2. Klopper JF, Hauser W, Atkins HL, et al. Evaluation of 99mTc-DTPA for the measurement of glomerular filtration rate. J Nucl Med 1972; 13: 107–10.

    3. Babu R, Basarge N, Ahlawat R, et al. Prediction of functional outcome in poorly functioning kidneys with unilateral pelviureteric junction obstruction: analysis of clinical features and lsotope renography. Indian J Urol 1996; 12: 65–70.

    Footnotes

    • Competing interests: None.