Captopril-enhanced scintigraphy using the method of the expected renogram: Improved detection of patients with renin-dependent hypertension due to functionally significant renal artery stenosis

Nephrology Dialysis Transplantation

Volumn 12, Issue 10, 1997, Pages 2081-2086

  Roccatello, D ^a   Picciotto, G ^a  

^a Osp S Giovanni Battista Citta T   (Italy)

Author keywords

Captopril enhanced scintigraphy; Expected renogram; Renal vascular stenosis; Renovascular hypertension

Indexed keywords

CAPTOPRIL; TECHNETIUM 99M;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; FEMALE; HUMAN; KIDNEY ARTERY STENOSIS; KIDNEY SCINTISCANNING; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RENOGRAPHY; RENOVASCULAR HYPERTENSION; REVASCULARIZATION;

ADULT; AGED; ANGIOTENSIN-CONVERTING ENZYME INHIBITORS; CAPTOPRIL; FEMALE; HUMANS; HYPERTENSION; KIDNEY; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; RADIOPHARMACEUTICALS; RENAL ARTERY OBSTRUCTION; RENIN; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; TECHNETIUM TC 99M MERTIATIDE;

EID: 0030845769     PISSN: 09310509     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/ndt/12.10.2081     Document Type: Article

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