Check with your doctor or dietitian before making any changes to the protein level in your diet. Loss of appetite and kidney disease. Poor appetite is a common symptom of advanced kidney disease. Even if you are not hungry, it is important to eat and keep good nutrition.
By Mayo Clinic Staff. Print. A hepatobiliary (HIDA) scan is an imaging procedure used to diagnose problems of the liver, gallbladder and bile ducts. For a HIDA scan, also known as cholescintigraphy and hepatobiliary scintigraphy, a radioactive tracer is injected into a vein in your arm. The tracer travels through your bloodstream to your liver, where the bile-producing cells take it up.
It checks if bile is being made and excreted, if the bile ducts or drainage system are functioning appropriately, and if there is any malfunction in the gallbladder. Typically, a hepatobiliary scan is coupled with an ultrasound of the gallbladder for a comprehensive evaluation. HIDA scan is also referred to as a hepatobiliary iminodiacetic acid scan or an NM hepatobiliary scan.