The renal arterial resistance index and renal allograft survival

New England Journal of Medicine

Volumn 349, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 115-124

  Radermacher, Jörg ^a   Mengel, Michael ^a   Ellis, Sebastian ^a   Stuht, Stephan ^a   Hiss, Markus ^a   Schwarz, Anke ^a   Eisenberger, Ute ^a   Burg, Michael ^a   Luft, Friedrich C ^b   Gwinner, Wilfried ^a   Haller, Hermann ^a  

^a HANNOVER MEDICAL SCHOOL   (Germany)

^b HUMBOLDT UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CREATININE;

ADULT; AGED; ARTERY RESISTANCE; ARTICLE; COLOR ULTRASOUND FLOWMETRY; CONTROLLED STUDY; CREATININE CLEARANCE; CYTOMEGALOVIRUS INFECTION; DIALYSIS; EVALUATION; FOLLOW UP; GRAFT FAILURE; GRAFT REJECTION; GRAFT SURVIVAL; HEART VENTRICLE ENDDIASTOLIC PRESSURE; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; KIDNEY ALLOGRAFT; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEINURIA; REDUCTION; RENAL ARTERY; RISK FACTOR; SURVIVAL RATE; SURVIVAL TIME; SYSTOLIC BLOOD PRESSURE; ALLOTRANSPLANTATION; BIOPSY; CHRONIC KIDNEY FAILURE; DOPPLER FLOWMETRY; ECHOGRAPHY; KIDNEY; KIDNEY CIRCULATION; KIDNEY FUNCTION TEST; KIDNEY TRANSPLANTATION; METABOLISM; MIDDLE AGED; MORTALITY; PATHOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; PREDICTION AND FORECASTING; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; ROC CURVE; SURVIVAL; TREATMENT OUTCOME; VASCULAR RESISTANCE;

BIOPSY; CREATININE; GRAFT SURVIVAL; HUMANS; KIDNEY; KIDNEY FAILURE, CHRONIC; KIDNEY FUNCTION TESTS; KIDNEY TRANSPLANTATION; MIDDLE AGED; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RENAL ARTERY; RENAL CIRCULATION; ROC CURVE; SURVIVAL ANALYSIS; TRANSPLANTATION, HOMOLOGOUS; TREATMENT OUTCOME; ULTRASONOGRAPHY, DOPPLER; VASCULAR RESISTANCE;

EID: 0038341187     PISSN: 00284793     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1056/NEJMoa022602     Document Type: Article

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