Fluoroscopic assessment of bilharzial ureteropathy

Abstract

This paper reports a fluoroscopic study of ureteric peristalsis during intravenous pyelography in 32 patients with urinary bilharziasis and 13 non-bilharzial controls with normal intravenous pyelograms. Ureteric peristalsis is reduced in parallel with urographic signs of involvement. The role of fluoroscopic examination of the ureters in staging bilharzial ureteropathy is discussed. © 1985 Royal College of Radiologists.