Keywords:
Kidney, Abdomen, Ultrasound, Education, Experimental investigations, Normal variants, Congenital, Epidemiology
Authors:
A. D. Tarnoki1, D. L. Tarnoki1, P. Bata1, L. Littvay1, Z. Garami2, K. Karlinger1, V. Bérczi1; 1Budapest/HU, 2Houston, TX/US
DOI:
10.1594/ecr2013/C-1529
Conclusion
The kidney size shows high interindividual differences,
the normal length measures around 110±20 mm [9].
Reduced kidney size is partly related to renovascular diseases,
by correlating to the significant and evolving nature of the stenosis [10].
We have observed aslight difference between right and leftRCTs,
thus this study shows the completely different origin of right and left RPT: only rightRPTis moderately heritable (probably due to the well-known anatomic variation of left humped kidney and less prominent but existing variations of the compressed parenchyma by the spleen).The left RCT seemed to be sometimes thicker (eg.,
hypertrophied column of Bertin,
persistence of fetal lobation,
and the dromedary hump,
which are usually presentat the middle third portion of the left kidney).
This interrenal difference has been previously shown by various reportsin all decades [6,
11].
Our study provides an evidence that unique environmental factors (eg.,
lifestyle: cigarette smoking,
nutrition,
lack of physical exercises) have an extraordinary influence (70%) in the loss of renal parenchyma of advancing age,
which highlights the role of prevention of thinRPT-associated renal diseases.
Our results confirm previous findings which showed that cortical thickness is a good marker for the diagnosis of atherosclerotic renal disease,
considering that atherosclerotic phenotypes are also mainly environmentally influenced [12-15].
Our results may highlight the possibility that renal parenchymal thickness could be measured and monitored in individuals with unhealthy lifestyle.