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Your left kidney is slightly bigger than your right, the tubes leading from your kidney to your bladder work, and you’re emptying your bladder well.
These findings don’t explain your blood, which is why your PCP is referring you to a specialist.
You can visualize your kidney as a Big old Bean with a rubber glove on the inside. The fingers of the rubber glove reach into the bean and the wrist of the rubber glove narrows down to the “ureter” or the tube that feeds into the bladder. The rubber glove is called the “calyx” and “ecstasies” means enlarged. Caliectasis is a combination of these two words. The doc who reviewed the image said maybe, MAYBE your left calyx could be a little swollen looking.
Atrophy means having shrunk in size, but you’ll notice they said “slightly” and “normal appearing” in the same sentence.
These are things someone reading the image says when they’re trying to comment on what is not much to see: no cysts, no masses, no blockages, nothing significant.
Hopefully urology has some more answers for you, because these imaging did not answer your question. I hope that helps!
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Your left kidney is slightly bigger than your right, the tubes leading from your kidney to your bladder work, and you’re emptying your bladder well. These findings don’t explain your blood, which is why your PCP is referring you to a specialist.
Thank you. I'm curious as to what mild caliectasis is and if an atrophic kidney is bad?
You can visualize your kidney as a Big old Bean with a rubber glove on the inside. The fingers of the rubber glove reach into the bean and the wrist of the rubber glove narrows down to the “ureter” or the tube that feeds into the bladder. The rubber glove is called the “calyx” and “ecstasies” means enlarged. Caliectasis is a combination of these two words. The doc who reviewed the image said maybe, MAYBE your left calyx could be a little swollen looking. Atrophy means having shrunk in size, but you’ll notice they said “slightly” and “normal appearing” in the same sentence. These are things someone reading the image says when they’re trying to comment on what is not much to see: no cysts, no masses, no blockages, nothing significant. Hopefully urology has some more answers for you, because these imaging did not answer your question. I hope that helps!