A 35-year-old woman with chronic pyelonephritis and recurrent urinary tract infections is found to have a urine osmolality of 280 mOsm/kg despite a serum osmolality of 305 mOsm/kg. The attending physician suspects chronic tubulointerstitial damage affecting the countercurrent system. Which investigation would most specifically confirm loss of the medullary osmotic gradient?

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