Sunday, July 5, 2009

REPORTING TERMINOLOGY FOR NUCLEAR NEPHROLOGY

The following are useful phrases:

1. There is prompt/sluggish perfusion.
2. There is delayed/normal uptake/excretion(clearance) into pelvis/drainage into bladder (quantify the speed of excretion with the cortical transit time [N<4>400ml/min...based upon this you can say, if the number is less than 400, that "there is bilaterally reduced renal function, more marked on the (side that has the lowest split function number)".

For transplant kidneys, the way you tell function is again by the 2 minute counts. N>4%. You then write "a well perfused and normally functioning transplanted kidney in the RIF with no urinoma".

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