Open AccessCystosonography with echocontrast: A new imaging technic for detecting vesicoureteral reflux in children
Author(s) -
Evita Karianni Bermanshah Ifran,
B Lombay,
L Szabó
Publication year - 2017
Publication title -
paediatrica indonesiana
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2338-476X
pISSN - 0030-9311
DOI - 10.14238/pi41.1.2001.1-5
Subject(s) - cystography , vesicoureteral reflux , medicine , reflux , radiology , pediatric radiology , urination , pathology , urinary system , disease
Vesicoureteral reflux (VUR) is a common pediatric problem. Its late consequences may cause hypertension and renal failure, so that early diagnosis is important. Micturition cystourography (MCU) or radionuclide cystography (RNC) is the imaging of choice but these technics expose the children 10 radiation. Cystosonography with echocontrast is a new imagingtechnic lor detecting VUA without exposing the children to radiation. The aim of this article is to review this technic and to show our early experiences with this new method in the Pediatric Radiology Department of Borsod County Teaching Hospital, Miskolc, Hungary.