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Assessing Urinary Tract Junction Obstruction Defects by Methylene Blue Dye Injection
Published on: October 12, 2017
Page kidney in a child with ureteropelvic junction obstruction of lower moiety in a partial duplex system
Hidenori Nishio1, Kentaro Mizuno1, Takuya Sakata2
1Department of Pediatric Urology, Nagoya City University Graduate School of Medical Sciences, Nagoya, Japan.
Abstract:
Reports of hydronephrosis-induced hypertension in pediatric patients are rare. A 7-year-old girl with hypertension was referred to our hospital with left hydronephrosis caused by ureteropelvic junction obstruction of the lower moiety in a partial duplex system. Because the lower moiety was almost nonfunctional, a laparoscopic heminephrectomy was performed. Antihypertensive drugs were unnecessary on the day after surgery. This is the first report of a Page kidney in a patient with ureteropelvic junction obstruction of the lower moiety. The cause of hypertension was evaluated based on the plasma renin activity and pathological findings of the lower moiety.
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