Abstract
Aim: Uremia is often associated with a large array of thoracic complications. Radiological examinations have great importance in diagnosis of thoracic diseases. The main focus of this retrospective study was to document the multidedector computed tomography (MDCT) findings involving thoracic complications in hemodialysis patients. Method: Twenty-nine hemodialysis patients who had one or more of the following complaints; dyspnea, cough, malaise, weight loss, fever were included undergone MDCT in this study. Result: The MDCT and chest x-ray findings in our patients were as follows; cardiomegaly (13 vs. 12), ground-glass opacity (10 vs 0), pleural effusion (10 vs 9), parenchymal infiltration (9 vs. 2), scarring-fibrosis (9 vs. 3), pleural thickening (6 vs. 3), mediastinal and/or hilar lymphadenopathy (6 vs 0),’tree in bud’ appearance (5 vs. 0) atelectasis (4 vs. 0) , and emphysema (1 vs. 0) respectively . Conclusion: Our findings suggest that MDCT revealed many pathologic findings that chest x-ray could not detect.
Highlights
The incidence of end stage renal failure is increasing worldwide.There are approximately 300.000 on hemodialysis (HD) in the USA and 26.000 patients with end stage renal disease (ESRD) in Turkey [1,2]
Our findings suggest that multidedector computed tomography (CT) (MDCT) revealed many pathologic findings that chest x-ray could not detect
The introduction of MDCT has considerably modified the diagnostic approach of pulmonary diseases and its accuracy has progressively improved in parallel to the improvement of CT technology over the past 10 years [46]
Summary
The incidence of end stage renal failure is increasing worldwide.There are approximately 300.000 on hemodialysis (HD) in the USA and 26.000 patients with end stage renal disease (ESRD) in Turkey [1,2]. Radiologic examinations have great importance in diagnosis of thoracic diseases, in addition to chest x-ray and computed tomography (CT), new and more precise modalities such as multidedector CT (MDCT) was begun to use for this purpose. The introduction of MDCT has considerably modified the diagnostic approach of pulmonary diseases and its accuracy has progressively improved in parallel to the improvement of CT technology over the past 10 years [46]. We review the main thoracic findings in hemodialysis patients with pulmonary complaints from the radiological point of view
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