Abstract

DURAN ALVAREZ, Sandalio; CAMPANA COBAS, Neri Georgina; DIAZ ZAYAS, Niurka  and  PENA QUIAN, Yamilé. Hyperechogenic fetal kidney. Rev Cubana Pediatr [online]. 2011, vol.83, n.4, pp.423-430. ISSN 0034-7531.

The finding of hyperechogenic fetal kidneys is a problem of a great medical concern and of family anxiety, because of almost always it expresses an important renal disease. When hyper-echogenicity is accompanied by oligohydramnios, usually we are facing a polycystic disease; where there are not oligohydramnios the potential diagnosis is difficult. The objective of present paper is the presentation of a child presenting with recessive autosomal polycystic disease. En examinations performed in the mother during pregnancy, it was found a renal hyperechogeny and oligohydramnios. The clinical evolution, ultrasonography and scintigraphy of its disease is described and a brief review of literature in relation to thus subject is reviewed.

Keywords : hyperechogenic kidney; oligohydramnios; polycystic renal disease.

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