Resistive index: An ideal test for renovascular disease or ischemic nephropathy?

Nature Clinical Practice Nephrology

Volumn 2, Issue 5, 2006, Pages 232-233

  Radermacher, Jörg ^a  

^a KLINIKUM MINDEN   (Germany)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

CALCIUM ANTAGONIST; DIPEPTIDYL CARBOXYPEPTIDASE INHIBITOR; DIURETIC AGENT;

CORRELATION ANALYSIS; DOPPLER FLOWMETRY; FLOW RATE; HUMAN; HYPERTENSION RETINOPATHY; KIDNEY ARTERY STENOSIS; KIDNEY BIOPSY; KIDNEY DISEASE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEINURIA; RENOVASCULAR DISEASE; SHORT SURVEY; STANDARDIZATION; URINARY TRACT OBSTRUCTION; VALSALVA MANEUVER;

BLOOD FLOW VELOCITY; HUMANS; KIDNEY DISEASES; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; PROGNOSIS; RENAL CIRCULATION; ULTRASONOGRAPHY, DOPPLER; VASCULAR RESISTANCE;

EID: 33646894701     PISSN: 17458323     EISSN: 17458331     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/ncpneph0177     Document Type: Short Survey

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