What Is the Appropriate Use of Renal Sonography in an Inner‐City Population With New‐Onset Acute Kidney Injury?

We aimed to determine the prevalence of hydronephrosis in patients who underwent renal sonography for new‐onset acute kidney injury (AKI) and to identify clinical factors predictive of hydronephrosis. In patients with hydronephrosis, we sought to investigate how routine renal sonography affects patient treatment, including performance of interventional procedures.

[1]  C. Walther,et al.  Clinical utility of gray scale renal ultrasound in acute kidney injury , 2013, BMC Nephrology.

[2]  Jonathan Himmelfarb,et al.  Acute kidney injury episodes and chronic kidney disease risk in diabetes mellitus. , 2011, Clinical journal of the American Society of Nephrology : CJASN.

[3]  Y. Endo.  Renal Ultrasonography in the Evaluation of Acute Kidney Injury: Developing a Risk Stratification Framework , 2011 .

[4]  G. Chertow,et al.  Curbing the use of ultrasonography in the diagnosis of acute kidney injury: Penny wise or pound foolish?: Comment on "Renal ultrasonography in the evaluation of acute kidney injury". , 2010, Archives of internal medicine.

[5]  S. Waikar,et al.  Diagnosis, epidemiology and outcomes of acute kidney injury. , 2008, Clinical journal of the American Society of Nephrology : CJASN.

[6]  John A Kellum,et al.  Acute Kidney Injury Network: report of an initiative to improve outcomes in acute kidney injury , 2007, Critical care.

[7]  Joseph V Bonventre,et al.  Acute kidney injury, mortality, length of stay, and costs in hospitalized patients. , 2005, Journal of the American Society of Nephrology : JASN.

[8]  J. Fielding,et al.  Renal Sonography in the Intensive Care Unit , 2002, Journal of ultrasound in medicine : official journal of the American Institute of Ultrasound in Medicine.

[9]  W. C. O'Neill,et al.  Sonographic evaluation of renal failure. , 2000, American journal of kidney diseases : the official journal of the National Kidney Foundation.

[10]  J. Ellis,et al.  Urinary obstruction in azotemic patients: detection by sonography. , 1987, AJR. American journal of roentgenology.

[11]  N. Prasad,et al.  Acute kidney injury: definition controversies and epidemiology , 2012 .