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Clinical Trial
. 2000 Mar;15(3):191-3.
doi: 10.1046/j.1469-0705.2000.00064.x.

Fetal compensatory renal hypertrophy with a unilateral functioning kidney

L M Hill  1 , A Nowak, R Hartle, B Tush
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Clinical Trial

Fetal compensatory renal hypertrophy with a unilateral functioning kidney

L M Hill et al. Ultrasound Obstet Gynecol. 2000 Mar.
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Abstract

Objective: To evaluate the possibility of fetal compensatory renal hypertrophy with a unilateral functioning kidney.

Methods: A nomogram of renal length was established from 254 normal fetuses. Renal length was also obtained in 14 fetuses with unilateral renal agenesis and 22 fetuses with a unilateral multicystic kidney.

Results: Compensatory renal hypertrophy, defined as a renal length > 95th percentile for gestational age, occurred in 16 of 36 cases (44.4%).

Conclusions: Compensatory renal hypertrophy is detectable in utero and may occur as early as 22 weeks' gestation.

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