Abstract
Objective:To correlate between hydronephrosis grades and detection of urinary stones by B-mode ultrasound imaging.Methods:This study included 210 ultrasound reports of patients who underwent abdominal ultrasound imaging in the period from 1st January 2016 to 31st October 2017, and diagnosed as hydronephrosis. Data collected from the ultrasound reports. The detection rates of stones using B-mode ultrasound imaging compared in different grades of hydronephrosis. Chi-square test and Odds Ratio (OR) were performed to assess the relationship between variables.Results:Of 210 patients, hydronephrosis was unilateral in 91.8% of patients and bilateral in 8.1%. It was distributed in grade 2, grade 3, grade 1 and grade 4 in 58.57%, 20%, 12.38% and 9.1% of the patients respectively. B-mode ultrasound imaging determined the cause of hydronephrosis in 65.2% of cases. Urinary stones were the cause in 60% of the patients. The detection rate of urinary stones was 50%, 61% and 71.4% for grades 1, 2 and 3 hydronephroses respectively. On simple logistic regression analysis, urinary stones detected in Grade-3 were four times more compared to that in grade 4 (P=0.016) (OR 4.125, 95% CI 1.29-13.136%).Conclusion:Detection of urinary stones as the cause of hydronephrosis increases with increasing the grade of hydronephrosis from Grade-I to Grade-III and decrease in Grade-IV. Urinary stones were the cause of hydronephrosis in 60% of the patients in this study.
Highlights
Hydronephrosis is dilatation of the pelvicalyceal system as a result of urine excretion failure
B-mode ultrasound imaging detected the cause of hydronephrosis in 65.2% of all patients
We focused on the ability of ultrasound imaging to determine the urinary stones in the upper urinary tract in grades of hydronephrosis
Summary
Hydronephrosis is dilatation of the pelvicalyceal system as a result of urine excretion failure. It is either due to obstruction or non-obstructive causes. It is a common medical problem encountered by the primary healthcare workers, emergency physicians, and urologist’s worldwide.[1] Hydronephrosis divided into obstructive and non-obstructive. Obstructive usually caused by urinary stones, blood clots, ureteropelvic junction (UPJ) obstruction, stricture or external compression by tumor, fibrosis or others. The blockage may be acute or chronic, unilateral or bilateral, partial or complete. Nonobstructive caused by reflux, residual or others.[1,2]
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