Do ultrasound renal resistance indices reflect systemic rather than renal vascular damage in chronic kidney disease?

Nephrology Dialysis Transplantation

Volumn 22, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 163-170

  Heine, Gunnar H ^a   Reichart, Birgit ^a   Ulrich, Christof ^a   Köhler, Hans ^a   Girndt, Matthias ^a  

^a SAARLAND UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Atherosclerosis; Chronic renal disease; Resistive index; Ultrasound

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGE; AGED; ANKLE BRACHIAL INDEX; ARTERY INTIMA PROLIFERATION; ARTERY MEDIA; ARTICLE; ATHEROSCLEROSIS; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASE; CARDIOVASCULAR RISK; CAROTID ARTERY; CHRONIC KIDNEY DISEASE; COLOR ULTRASOUND FLOWMETRY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEATH; DIABETES MELLITUS; DIABETIC NEPHROPATHY; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DISEASE COURSE; ECHOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HUMAN; ISCHEMIC HEART DISEASE; KIDNEY VASCULAR RESISTANCE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS; PULSE PRESSURE; RENOVASCULAR DISEASE; RISK ASSESSMENT;

AGED; BLOOD PRESSURE; BLOOD VESSELS; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASES; CAROTID ARTERIES; FEMALE; HUMANS; KIDNEY; KIDNEY FAILURE, CHRONIC; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; RISK; RISK FACTORS; TIME FACTORS; VASCULAR DISEASES;

EID: 33845971273     PISSN: 09310509     EISSN: 14602385     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/ndt/gfl484     Document Type: Article

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