Early diagnostics of nefrosklerosis and urinary infection in patient with chronic tophaceous gout

Abstract

One of the frequent manifestations of gout is the gout nephropathy.1 For assessment of the urinary system functional reserves and the risk of renal failure routine analyses of urine in combination with a sonography are often not enough.2,3 Modern technology of the systemic examination of nephrourological status based on complex renal scintigraphy (SENS-CRS) was developed in the laboratory of radioisotope diagnosis in «N.N.Blokhin National Medical Research Center» and implementedas an automated workplace. SENS-CRS technology is designed for assessment of the functional reserves of the urinary system and the risk of renal failure at all macrostructural levels and allows lowest radiation doses (0.6 mSv for one patient).4,5 We report a case of renal failures diagnosticsand urinary infection in the patient with chronic tophaceous gout and a premorbidal background.