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Vertical and medial nephroptosis was assessed on 60 consecutive excretory urographic examinations. Ptosis, both vertical and medial, was seen more commonly in females, and vertical ptosis was more frequent than medial ptosis. In our series there was no significant evidence of predominance on the right side. Dietl crisis, nausea, vomiting, hypotension, oliguria, or orthostatic hypertension were not encountered. Nephroptosis was mostly asymptomatic. In those patients with symptoms, lumbar pain was common and could be either aggravated or relieved by change in position. A new sign, paradoxic displacement, is described. This could be of value to the surgeon and radiotherapist in evaluating enlargement of a huge abdominal mass - a difficulat task to assess clinically.
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PMID:Roentgenographic evaluation of nephroptosis. 67 40

The paper reports two cases of 3rd degree nephroptosis which were treated surgically using the technique described by Prof. Aglietti. Both cases were women suffering from associated pathologies. The need to distinguish between symptoms related to renal ptosis and those caused by different disorders required an accurate clinical and instrumental study to be performed in both patients. Only after the concomitant pathologies had been treated could the patients undergo nephropexy. The paper gives a brief description of the technique. The authors discuss the indications for surgery and analyse the results.
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PMID:[Nephropexy using the Aglietti procedure. Case reports]. 823 35

Undifferentiated connective tissue dysplasia (UDCTD) is a common type of congenital mesenchymal defect. Among the visceral manifestations of UDCTD, cardiac anomalies have been studied in detail while the nature, extent, and clinical significance of changes in other viscera are much less known. The review summaries data on currently accepted extracardiac manifestations of UDCTD, such as venous insufficiency, tracheobronchial dyskinesia, nephroptosis, genital prolapse, gastrointestinal disorders, hemostatic pathology.
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PMID:[Extracardiac manifestations of undifferentiated connective tissue dysplasia]. 1466 63

In line with new prospects, introduction of laparoscopic technique in nephropexy gave rise to some problems. One of them--postoperative rotation of the kidney (RK). Upper-pole endovideosurgical nephropexy (EVSN) with prolen net performed in the diagnostic center "Zdoroviye" in 90 patients has demonstrated that late after surgery 9 (10%) patients had pains provoked by RK and abnormal renal circulation confirmed by Dopplerography. In 1998 specialists of the diagnostic center "Zdoroviye" developed a novel method of EVSN providing elimination of the ptosis and RK. A total of 88 patients have been operated since. 67 patients with nephroptosis and RK have undergone nephropexy with a splitted flap of the prolen net, 21 patients without RK--standard nephropexy. Long-term postoperative follow-up showed that only 3 of 88 patients failed to retain normal velocity of the major renal blood flow, though they improved this velocity noticeably. Thus, a differentiated approach to EVSN based on dopplerographic examination of the major renal blood flow brings about improved treatment results in nephroptosis.
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PMID:[Endoscopic nephropexy]. 1511 55

Renal ptosis, otherwise known as nephroptosis or "floating kidney," is a condition of abnormal descent of the kidney, often asymptomatic with controversy over its clinical and therapeutic significance. The aberrant location of renal and renal collecting system activity associated with this condition may serve as a diagnostic pitfall in PET/CT interpretation. We report a case of dynamic renal ptosis demonstrated on F-FDG PET/CT, identified as right kidney migration from an ectopic location on attenuation correction CT images, obtained immediately after upright positioning, to the right renal fossa on subsequent PET images, obtained after approximately 10 min of supine positioning.
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PMID:Dynamic Renal Ptosis Demonstrated on 18F-FDG PET/CT. 3068 44