Dimercaptosuccinic acid scan or ultrasound in screening for vesicoureteral reflux among children with urinary tract infections.

CONCLUSIONS: Neither the renal ultrasound nor the DMSA scan is accurate enough to detect VUR (of all grades). Although a child with a negative DMSA test has an < 1% probability of having high-grade VUR, performing a screening DMSA will result in a large number of children falsely labelled as being at risk for high-grade VUR. Accordingly, the usefulness of the DMSA as a screening test for high-grade VUR should be questioned.
PMID: 27378557 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher]

Source: Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews - July 4, 2016 Category: Journals (General) Authors: Shaikh N, Spingarn RB, Hum SW Tags: Cochrane Database Syst Rev Source Type: research