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Renal Scintigraphy related doubt

2023-04-08 15:21:14
The test report shows the left kidney has differential function of 3% and right kidney has 97%. ERPF of left kidney is 7.4 and right kidney is 216.4. There are no symptoms as such and we got to know about this from a regular health checkup. Also, the report says the left kidney drainage cannot be made due to poor extraction and & excretion of tracer. What does this mean? Do we need to get it operated or is the kidney damaged? What do we need to do?
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The left kidney has become almost non functional and it would be wise for you to get it removed as it will get infected and may cause lots of problem in the future. There are good modalities like laparoscopic nephrectomy to do this in a minimally invasive way. In general,Whenever the split function of the kidney is less than 15%, it is recommended to get it removed.
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