Comparison of renal ultrasonography and
dimercaptosuccinic acid renal scintigraphy in febrile urinary tract infection.
Static renal scintigraphy is based on imaging of functional renal parenchyma through the Tc-99m DMSA (
dimercaptosuccinic acid) which is the radiopharmaceutical that is linked with intracellular proteins after being tubular extraction.
Technetium-99m
dimercaptosuccinic acid scintigraphy studies of renal cortical scarring and renal length.
Effect of removal from lead exposure and chelation treatment with
dimercaptosuccinic acid (DMSA).
Renal scars, as identified by
dimercaptosuccinic acid scan, were similar in both groups.
Dimercaptosuccinic acid (DMSA; Chemet[R], Succimer[R], Succicaptal[R]), a water-soluble derivative of dimercapto-1-propanol (British Anti Lewisite), was cleared by the US Food and Drug Administration in 1991 for the treatment of children with PbB >450 [micro]g/L.
In a study of 63 such women, nearly half had renal scars, based on highly sensitive technetium--99m--labeled
dimercaptosuccinic acid scanning.
Blood and bone lead levels were measured, and lead workers were given a chelator,
dimercaptosuccinic acid (DMSA), so that the scientists could determine how readily lead could be removed from the body Genetic tests determined what combinations of the two variants made up the two genes within each subject.
Renal scintigraphy with
dimercaptosuccinic acid (DMSA) is the reference standard for the diagnosis of acute pyelonephritis and renal scars (7,8) and was a compulsory paraclinical examination, considering that until 2010 the treatment of patients with UTI was based on the second edition of the Evidence-based Pediatric Practice Guidelines.
The left kidney has a 5% function on
dimercaptosuccinic acid renal scan imaging.
All infants with UTI must be screened by ultrasonography, followed by MCU (Micturating cystourethrogram) and DMSA (
Dimercaptosuccinic acid) scan.Pi On abdominal USG, 5 out of 8 boys and 1 out of 10 girls showed renal system abnormalities in our study.