Intravenous Urography

Intravenous Urography (IVU) is a technique of X-ray projection used to find some disorders in urinary tract, example: kidney stone.
A contrast medium in iodine that appears in X-ray is injected to venous in your arm. Then, medium contrast will pass to kidney trough blood vessel to be filtered from blood to urine, thus get out from kidney to urethra and urinary bladder. Some images of X-ray taken periodic to show medium contrast pass those organs. This procedure is no pain and usually take place about 1 hour.
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