Iliac artery stenosis proximal to a kidney transplant: Clinical findings, duplex-sonographic criteria, treatment, and outcome

Transplantation

Volumn 76, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 332-339

  Voiculescu, Adina ^a   Hollenbeck, Markus ^a   Plum, Jörg ^a   Hetzel, Gerd Rudiger ^a   Mödder, Ulrich ^a   Pfeiffer, Tomas ^a   Sandmann, Wilhelm ^a   Grabensee, Bernd ^a  

^a HEINRICH HEINE UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIHYPERTENSIVE AGENT; CREATININE;

ACUTE KIDNEY FAILURE; ADULT; ANGIOGRAPHY; ARTICLE; BLOOD PRESSURE; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; ECHOGRAPHY; HUMAN; ILIAC ARTERY OBSTRUCTION; KIDNEY FUNCTION; KIDNEY GRAFT; KIDNEY TRANSPLANTATION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; PERCUTANEOUS TRANSLUMINAL ANGIOPLASTY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STENT;

ADULT; ANGIOPLASTY, BALLOON; CONSTRICTION, PATHOLOGIC; HUMANS; ILIAC ARTERY; KIDNEY TRANSPLANTATION; MAGNETIC RESONANCE ANGIOGRAPHY; MIDDLE AGED; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; STENTS; TREATMENT OUTCOME; ULTRASONOGRAPHY, DOPPLER, DUPLEX; VASCULAR DISEASES;

EID: 0043269238     PISSN: 00411337     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/01.TP.0000072805.40996.B1     Document Type: Article

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