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1: Invest Radiol. 1987 Sep;22(9):728-32.Links

Acquired cystic disease of the kidneys. Computed tomography and ultrasonography appraisal in patients on peritoneal and hemodialysis.

Jabour BA, Ralls PW, Tang WW, Boswell WD Jr, Colletti PM, Feinstein EI, Massry SG.

Los Angeles County/University of Southern California Medical Center, Department of Radiology 90033.

Screening chronic hemodialysis patients (CHD) for acquired cystic disease of the kidneys (ACDK) and its complications (hemorrhage and neoplasm) has become accepted management. We evaluated patients on CHD as well as patients on chronic peritoneal dialysis (CPD) for ACDK. The kidneys of 80 chronic dialysis patients were examined by CT and real time sonography. Forty-four were hemodialysis and 36 were peritoneal dialysis patients. ACDK was found in more than 90% of both CHD and CPD patients who had been dialyzed longer than three years. Bilateral renal carcinoma was detected in one hemodialysis patient. Our results show that chronic peritoneal dialysis patients are also at risk for ACDK and its associated complications. A similar natural history for the development of ACDK in both forms of dialysis suggests that the same screening precautions should be instituted for chronic peritoneal dialysis patients.

PMID: 3316110 [PubMed - indexed for MEDLINE]