PERCUTANEOUS NEPHROSTOMY - RECOVERED RENAL-FUNCTION IN 50 OBSTETRIC AND GYNECOLOGIC PATIENTS UNDERGOING PERCUTANEOUS NEPHROSTOMY

Percutaneous nephrostomy (PN) will rapidly correct renal failure due t o ureteral obstruction. Complications of the procedure are few and the procedure can be quickly accomplished on an outpatient basis using lo cal anesthesia. A retrospective review of fifty patients who underwent PN led to derivation of a formula which predicts the expected degree of correction of renal function. Measurement of renal intracalyceal pr essures at the time of PN was not helpful in predicting-outcome.