A newborn at the neonatal pathology department of the Children's City Clinical Hospital with omphalocele, an ultrasound scan was prescribed with suspicion of hypoxic kidney damage and an omphalocele ultrasound scan.
On ultrasound of omphalocele it is visualized as a rounded structure, with contents of mixed echogenicity, without blood flow to the CFM, located in the anterior abdominal wall defect.
On ultrasound of the kidneys, an increase in the echogenicity of the papillae of the renal pyramids is visualized - the syndrome of hyperechoic pyramids (Tamm-Horsfall nephropathy, by the name of the Tamm-Horsfall protein, which can cause hyperechoic renal pyramids in newborns and is considered a transient state, practically as a normal state if further on the follow-up ultrasound the indicated echo-pattern goes away!).
