Intravascular and intraparenchymatous hepatic segmentary sclerosis

Abstract Purpose: To evaluate the morphological effects of injected sclerosing agents into the liver. Methods: This study was performed on twenty dogs, distributed into five groups: Group 1 (n = 5) - control, Group 2 (n = 5) - injection of 50% glucose solution inside hepatic parenchyma and animals followed during seven days, Group 3 (n = 10) - injection of ethanol inside hepatic parenchyma and animals distribution into two subgroups Subgroup 3A (n = 5) - followed during 24 hours and subgroup 3B (n = 5) - followed during seven days (group 3B), Group 4 (n = 5) - ethanol injection inside left portal vein branch and followed during 24 hours. Livers were macroscopically evaluated, submitted to hepatic arteriography and portography, then histology. Results: All animals in Group 4 died within 23 hours due to diffuse hepatic necrosis. The animals of groups 2 and 3 had a satisfactory evolution. Fibrosis formed in the segment reached by the sclerosant solution and interruption of the contrast flow injected into the portal system. Conclusion: Intrahepatic parenchymal ethanol injection is well tolerated and causes sclerosis restricted to a specific segment; however, intraportal ethanol injection causes massive hepatic necrosis and can lead to death.

Osteodistrofia renal y trastornos del metabolismo y la mineralización ósea asociados a enfermedad renal crónica: manifestaciones en radiología / Renal osteodystrophy and disorders of bone metabolism and mineralisation associated with chronic kidney disease: radiological manifestations

Abstract. Chronic kidney disease is a public health problem worldwide, with disorders of bone mineralisation and metabolism being common problems associated with this disease, causing significant morbidity and impaired quality of life. The expression of the findings in the chronic kidney disease can be categorised based on the classification proposed by the international conference Kidney Disease: Improving Global Outcomes, that divides them into metabolic disorders of calcium and phosphorus (without findings in radiology), bone structure and composition disorders, and extra-skeletal calcifications. These conditions give characteristic radiographic patterns, such as bone resorption and sclerosis, brown tumours, osteomalacia-rickets, osteopenia, and extra-skeletal calcifications, in addition to treatment related disorders of chronic kidney failure. In this article, concepts related to metabolism disorders and bone mineralisation associated with chronic renal disease and renal osteodystrophy will be categorised and updated, showing their various manifestations in radiology.

La enfermedad renal crónica es un problema de salud pública a nivel mundial, siendo los trastornos de la mineralización y el metabolismo óseo problemas comunes asociados a esta enfermedad, que causan una importante morbilidad y un deterioro de la calidad de vida. La expresión de los hallazgos en la enfermedad renal crónica puede sistematizarse con base en la clasificación propuesta por la conferencia internacional Kidney Disease: Improving Global Outcomes, que las divide en trastornos del metabolismo del calcio y el fósforo (sin hallazgos en imágenes), alteración de la estructura y la composición del hueso, y calcificaciones extraesqueléticas. Estos trastornos otorgan patrones radiológicos característicos, como son la resorción y esclerosis ósea, tumores pardos, osteomalacia-raquitismo, osteopenia y calcificaciones extraesqueléticas, además de los trastornos asociados al tratamiento de la falla renal crónica. En el presente artículo se sistematizarán y actualizarán los conceptos relacionados con los trastornos del metabolismo y la mineralización ósea, asociados a la enfermedad renal crónica y la osteodistrofia renal, mostrando sus diversas manifestaciones en radiología.