Magnetic Resonance Imaging in the Detection of Renal Stones During Pregnancy

Background: Kidney stone disease is the most common urinary system disorder. Kidney stones is uncommon during pregnancy. Exhibiting complications like pyelonephritis and MRI is useful. Aim: This study specialized to evaluate clinical outcomes of renal stones during pregnancy, which are detected using MRI. Patients and methods: 85 pregnant women with kidney stones were enrolled. Patient data were collected from different hospitals in Iraq between February 2023 and March 2024. All pregnant patients underwent early diagnosis by magnetic resonance imaging: obstetric outcomes and clinical complications of the pregnant women after delivery were recorded. Results: Based to our study's outcomes, we found 78.82% of pregnant women get Calcium Phosphate stones; 62.35% of women have Stones sizes < 10 mm; stone intensity detected by MRI with 130 - 200 of 74.12% for women, maternal and neonatal complications got 45 cases, where 5 cases of maternal and 4 cases of neonatal were dead. Conclusion: MRI technique, which is accurate of differentiating physiological urinary tract dilatation to abnormal dilatation due to renal stones and through detecting complications, including pyelonephritis