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Record W4416801486 · doi:10.1101/2025.11.26.25341080

Association between grade of congenital hydronephrosis and time to natural resolution

2025· preprint· W4416801486 on OpenAlexaff
Virginie Bleau, Anne Tsampalieros, Nick Barrowman, Jon Seymour, Ivan Terekhov, Janusz Feber, Robert L. Myette

Bibliographic record

VenuemedRxiv · 2025
Typepreprint
Language
FieldMedicine
TopicPediatric Urology and Nephrology Studies
Canadian institutionsChildren's Hospital of Eastern Ontario
Fundersnot available
KeywordsHydronephrosisProportional hazards modelCohortRetrospective cohort studyPregnancyGestational ageHazard ratio

Abstract

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Abstract Introduction Standard of care for pregnancy includes a second trimester ultrasound which may lead to incidental findings of fetal uropathies. The most common fetal uropathy is congenital hydronephrosis (CH). There is limited information regarding the natural history of CH. The objective of this study was to describe factors associated with time to natural resolution of CH. Methodology This is a retrospective cohort study of infants with CH using data from a single hospital’s electronic medical record. Between January 2017 and December 2022, infants with CH were identified using ICD-10 codes and were included in the cohort if they had a second ultrasound prior to 2022. Severity of CH was classified using Society for Fetal Urology (SFU) grades. Cox proportional hazards analysis was used to model time to resolution adjusting for age, sex, and initial SFU grade. Results Of 209 infants with CH, 126 were included in the cohort, with males predominating (78%). A total of 168 kidney units were included with eighty-four infants (67%) having only 1 kidney unit affected. In multivariable Cox proportional hazards regression modelling, after adjusting for sex and age at initial ultrasound, initial SFU grade was associated with time to natural resolution (compared to grade 1, adjusted hazard ratios for grades 2, 3 and 4 were: 0.59 [95% CI 0.34-1.01], 0.23 [95% CI 0.12,0.47] and 0.04 [95% CI 0.01,0.14]; p<0.001). Conclusion On average, kidney units with not only SFU 4, but also SFU 3, resolved more slowly than those with low-grade hydronephrosis. These findings will assist in counseling parents of children with CH.

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How this classification was reachedexpand

Full frame machine prediction

Teacher imitation

Not calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. The Gemma side is a direct model label for every work in the frame, read from the title-only record. The Codex side is a classifier learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and calibrated to design-weighted sample rates; fields without enough sample support carry no Codex call. Candidate is the union of the two sides; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.001
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.010
Version: metacan-v3-hybrid-931329e0061cValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesnone
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Observational · Consensus signal: Observational
GenreCandidate signal: Empirical · Consensus signal: Empirical
Teacher disagreement score0.006
Threshold uncertainty score0.011

Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0010.010
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0000.001
Bibliometrics0.0000.000
Science and technology studies0.0000.000
Scholarly communication0.0010.000
Open science0.0000.000
Research integrity0.0000.001
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0030.000

Machine scores (provisional)

The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.

Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.

Opus teacher head0.014
GPT teacher head0.263
Teacher spread0.249 · how far apart the two teachers sit on this one work
Validation statusscore_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it

Classification

machine, unvalidated

Machine predicted; a candidate call from one source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), not a consensus.

The models applied no category: nothing in the taxonomy fit this work.
Study designObservational
Domainnot available
GenreEmpirical

How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".

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