Poor performance of diagnostic tests for atherosclerotic renal artery stenosis - Discrepancies between stenosis and renal function

Nephrology Dialysis Transplantation

Volumn 22, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 689-692

  Alphons Wierema, Thomas Klaas ^a   Kroon, Abraham Anthonie ^a   de Leeuw, Peter Wilhelmus ^a  

^a MAASTRICHT UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Hypertension; Renal artery stenosis; Screening

Indexed keywords

ANGIOTENSIN RECEPTOR ANTAGONIST; CAPTOPRIL; CREATININE; DIPEPTIDYL CARBOXYPEPTIDASE INHIBITOR; RENIN;

ATHEROSCLEROSIS; BLOOD PRESSURE REGULATION; CARDIOVASCULAR RISK; CLINICAL DECISION MAKING; CLINICAL FEATURE; CLINICAL TRIAL; COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHIC ANGIOGRAPHY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; CREATININE BLOOD LEVEL; DELAYED DIAGNOSIS; DIAGNOSTIC TEST; DIGITAL SUBTRACTION ANGIOGRAPHY; DISEASE SEVERITY; FIBROMUSCULAR DYSPLASIA; HORMONE SYNTHESIS; HUMAN; KIDNEY ARTERY STENOSIS; KIDNEY BLOOD FLOW; KIDNEY FUNCTION; MAGNETIC RESONANCE ANGIOGRAPHY; NONHUMAN; NOTE; PERCUTANEOUS TRANSLUMINAL ANGIOPLASTY; PHYSICIAN ATTITUDE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RENOGRAPHY; SCREENING TEST; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

ADULT; AGED; ANGIOGRAPHY; ATHEROSCLEROSIS; DIAGNOSTIC ERRORS; FEMALE; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; RENAL ARTERY OBSTRUCTION; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 33847672193     PISSN: 09310509     EISSN: 14602385     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/ndt/gfl673     Document Type: Note

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