Impact of levovist ultrasonographic contrast agent on the diagnosis and management of hypertensive patients with suspected renal artery stenosis: A Canadian multicentre pilot study

Canadian Association of Radiologists Journal

Volumn 53, Issue 4, 2002, Pages 219-227

  Lacourcière, Yves ^a   Lévesque, Jacques ^a   Onrot, John M ^b   Wilson, Stephanie R ^c   Szaky, Esther ^c   Thibodeau, Micheline ^d   Vasilevsky, Murray L ^d   Dashefsky, Sidney M ^e   Allan, Donald R ^e   Lafortune, Michel ^f   Vendeville, Benoît ^f   Zaleski, Witold M ^g   Pagé, Denis E ^g   D'Onofrio, Franco ^h  

^a LAVAL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b ST PAUL S HOSPITAL   (Canada)

^c TORONTO GENERAL HOSPITAL   (Canada)

^d MONTREAL GENERAL HOSPITAL   (Canada)

^e HEALTH SCIENCES CENTRE   (Canada)

^f UNIVERSITY OF MONTREAL   (Canada)

^g UNIVERSITY OF OTTAWA   (Canada)

^h INSTITUTE FOR RESEARCH IN IMMUNOLOGY AND CANCER   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CAPTOPRIL; CONTRAST MEDIUM; SHU 508;

ABDOMINAL AORTA ANEURYSM; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CANADA; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTRAST ENHANCEMENT; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; DIGITAL SUBTRACTION ANGIOGRAPHY; ECHOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HUMAN; HYPERTENSION; INJECTION SITE; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; KIDNEY ANGIOGRAPHY; KIDNEY ARTERY STENOSIS; KIDNEY SCINTISCANNING; MAGNETIC RESONANCE ANGIOGRAPHY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MORTALITY; MULTICENTER STUDY; PAIN; PATIENT REFERRAL; RENOVASCULAR HYPERTENSION; SCINTIGRAPHY; SCREENING TEST; ULTRASOUND;

ADULT; AGED; ANGIOTENSIN-CONVERTING ENZYME INHIBITORS; CANADA; CAPTOPRIL; CONTRAST MEDIA; FEMALE; HUMANS; HYPERTENSION, RENOVASCULAR; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PILOT PROJECTS; POLYSACCHARIDES; RENAL ARTERY OBSTRUCTION; ULTRASONOGRAPHY, DOPPLER, DUPLEX;

EID: 0036775154     PISSN: 08465371     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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