Two kidney-transplant women with therapy-resistant hypertension: Diagnostic error of a renal artery stenosis

Nephrology Dialysis Transplantation

Volumn 18, Issue 7, 2003, Pages 1401-1404

  Clerbaux, Gaëtan ^a   Groffette, Pierre ^a   Pirson, Yves ^a   Goffin, Eric ^a  

^a CLINIQUES UNIVERSITAIRES SAINT LUC   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Angiography; Colour Doppler ultrasound; Gadolinium; Magnetic resonance angiography; Transplant renal artery stenosis

Indexed keywords

AMLODIPINE; ATENOLOL; AZATHIOPRINE; BISOPROLOL; CYCLOSPORIN; FUROSEMIDE; GADOLINIUM; IMMUNOSUPPRESSIVE AGENT; ISRADIPINE; METHYLDOPA; MOXONIDINE; PREDNISOLONE; QUINAPRIL;

ADULT; ARTERY CLAMP; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; COLOR ULTRASOUND FLOWMETRY; DIAGNOSTIC ERROR; FEMALE; HEMODIALYSIS; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; HYPERTENSION; ILIAC ARTERY; IMMUNOSUPPRESSIVE TREATMENT; KIDNEY ARTERIOGRAPHY; KIDNEY ARTERY STENOSIS; KIDNEY FAILURE; KIDNEY TRANSPLANTATION; MAGNETIC RESONANCE ANGIOGRAPHY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RENAL ARTERY;

EID: 0038352194     PISSN: 09310509     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/ndt/gfg005     Document Type: Article

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