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What is your approach to patients with chronic kidney disease who are found to have pelviectasis without hydronephrosis on renal ultrasound imaging?

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Nephrology · University Of California San Francisco Medical Center At Parnassus

Good question. I would involve urology early on. I would get more history as to other signs/symptoms of urinary obstruction (nocturia, BPH symptoms, history of retroperitoneal fibrosis). Then, consider a Lasix urogram.

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