URINARY SYSTEM CLINICAL APPLICATIONS:1.RENAL FUNCTION. 2.OBSTRUCTION. 3.REFLUX NEPHROPATHY. 4.TRAUMA. 5.RENAL FAILURE. 6.SPACE-OCCUPYING LESIONS. 7.CONGENITAL LESIONS. 8.VASCULAR DISORDERS AND HYPERTENSION. 9.RENAL TRANSPLANT INDICATIONS FOR RENAL SCANNING IN ACUTE RENAL FAILURE: -TO DIAGNOSE ORE-RENAL FAILURE -TO DIAGNOSE ACUTE TUBULAR NECROSIS (ATN) -TO MONITOR CHANGES IN THE ANURIC PATIENT -TO DIAGNOSE COMPLICATIONS -TO ASSESS THE PROBABLE PROGNOSIS SOME ANTIHYPERTENSIVE DRUGS: 1. ADALAT (TINOLOL) 2. ALDOMET (LOBETOL) 3. CAPTOPRIL 4. TENORMIN -DIURETIC: 1. LASIX (FRUSEMIDE) 2. SPIRAUOLACTON (POTASSIUM SPARING DIURETIC) ADVANTAGES OF RADIONUCLIDE STUDIES OVER MICTURATING CYSTOGRAPHY -LOWER RADIATION DOSES -NO CATHETERIZATION -SIMULTANEOUS ASSESSMENT OF RENAL FUNCTION -RENAL (KIDNEY) SCAN RADIONUCLIDE IMAGING STUDIES OF THE KIDNEYS ARE SENSITIVE INDEXES OF RELATIVE RENAL BLOOD FLOW, TUBULAR -FUNCTION,AND URINARY EXCRETION. -DTPA TO MEASURE GLOMERULAR FUNCTION,OIH,MAG3,DMSA TO VISUALIZE AND QUANTITATE TUBULAR FUNCTION. -EVALUATE (UTI) URINARY TRACK INFECTION. * URINARY-USEFUL TIPS * *URINARY IMAGING INTERPRETATION* * URINARY SYSTEM * |