Doppler spectrum analysis in the differential diagnosis of renal transplant dysfunction

Clinical Transplantation

Volumn 10, Issue 5, 1996, Pages 420-428

  Merkus, J W S ^a,b   Van Asten, W N J C ^a   Hoitsma, A J ^a   VaN'T Hof, M A ^a   Koene, R A P ^a   Skotnicki, S H ^a  

^a RADBOUD UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

^b CANISIUS WILHELMINA HOSPITAL   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Doppler; Duplex; Renal dysfunction; Renal transplantation

Indexed keywords

CYCLOSPORIN A; IMMUNOSUPPRESSIVE AGENT;

ARTICLE; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; DISCRIMINANT ANALYSIS; DOPPLER ECHOGRAPHY; HUMAN; KIDNEY FAILURE; KIDNEY GRAFT REJECTION; KIDNEY TRANSPLANTATION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; NEPHROTOXICITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REGRESSION ANALYSIS;

BLOOD FLOW VELOCITY; CYCLOSPORINE; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; GRAFT REJECTION; HUMANS; KIDNEY; KIDNEY TRANSPLANTATION; RENAL CIRCULATION; ROC CURVE; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; ULTRASONOGRAPHY, DOPPLER; VASCULAR RESISTANCE;

EID: 0029855739     PISSN: 09020063     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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