Características ecográficas relacionadas al diagnóstico de la enfermedad renal crónica

Abstract

Introduction: Chronic kidney disease is a health problem worldwide, its poor symptoms in early stages make diagnosis a challenge, for which serological methods with little sensitivity or invasive methods such as kidney biopsy with possible serious complications make them resort to compared to other methods such as ultrasound, the latter being a non-invasive and uncomplicated method, making it a good choice for the diagnosis and evaluating the evolution of chronic kidney disease, since with its measurements of renal volume or cortical thickness to identify some kidney damage related to glomerular filtration rate. Objective: to describe the ultrasound details for the early diagnosis of chronic kidney disease by means of a bibliographic review through the search system of articles published in the last 5 years in high-impact medical journals. Materials and methods: a bibliographic review is carried out by selecting articles published in the last 5 years on the PubMed platform found with the keyword “Renal cortex volume”, meta-analyzes, systematic reviews and clinical trials were chosen. Articles were also searched on the Google Scholar platform with the same filters. Conclusion: the existence of several imaging methods for renal measurement, ultrasound contributes to the diagnosis of chronic kidney disease, although its sensitivity is around 50% due to the absence of specific ultrasound patterns, it is very useful as it is a method of non-invasive, comfortable and radiation-free imaging.