Clinical usefulness of duplex ultrasonography for the assessment of renal arteriosclerosis in essential hypertensive patients

Hypertension Research

Volumn 24, Issue 1, 2001, Pages 13-17

  Shimizu, Y ^a   Itoh, T ^a   Hougaku, H ^a   Nagai, Y ^a   Hashimoto, H ^a   Sakaguchi, M ^a   Handa, N ^a   Kitagawa, K ^a   Matsumoto, M ^a   Hori, M ^a  

^a OSAKA UNIVERSITY GRADUATE SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

Author keywords

Arteriosclerosis; Essential hypertension; Kidney; Resistive index; Ultrasonics

Indexed keywords

CREATININE; NITROGEN; UREA;

ADULT; AGED; ARTERY RESISTANCE; ARTICLE; ATHEROSCLEROSIS; B SCAN; CAROTID ARTERY; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; CREATININE BLOOD LEVEL; CREATININE CLEARANCE; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; DISEASE SEVERITY; ECHOGRAPHY; ELECTROCARDIOGRAM; ESSENTIAL HYPERTENSION; FEMALE; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE HYPERTROPHY; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; INJURY; KIDNEY INJURY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MULTIPLE ORGAN FAILURE; NEPHROSCLEROSIS; OPHTHALMOSCOPY; RENAL ARTERY; TARGET ORGAN; UREA NITROGEN BLOOD LEVEL; VOLUNTEER;

ADULT; AGED; ARTERIOSCLEROSIS; BLOOD PRESSURE; CAROTID ARTERY DISEASES; CREATININE; DIABETES COMPLICATIONS; FEMALE; HUMANS; HYPERCHOLESTEROLEMIA; HYPERTENSION; HYPERTROPHY, LEFT VENTRICULAR; KIDNEY DISEASES; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; RENAL CIRCULATION; RISK FACTORS; VASCULAR RESISTANCE;

EID: 0035115605     PISSN: 09169636     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1291/hypres.24.13     Document Type: Article

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