Colour-coded duplex sonography after renal transplantation;Farbkodierte duplexsonografie nach nierentransplantation

Ultraschall in der Medizin

Volumn 28, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 6-27

  Thalhammer, Christoph ^a   Aschwanden, M ^a   Mayr, M ^a   Staub, D ^a   Jaeger, K A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL BASEL   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Renal arteries; Renal veins; Transplantation; Ultrasound color doppler; Ultrasound spectral doppler

Indexed keywords

CYCLOSPORIN; TACROLIMUS;

ARTERIOVENOUS FISTULA; ARTERY TRANSPLANTATION; DIALYSIS; DOPPLER ECHOGRAPHY; HUMAN; HYPERTENSION; IMMUNOSUPPRESSIVE TREATMENT; INTENSIVE CARE; KIDNEY TRANSPLANTATION; KIDNEY VEIN THROMBOSIS; MORPHOLOGICAL TRAIT; RENAL ARTERY; REVIEW; SPECTROSCOPY; ARTICLE; COLOR ULTRASOUND FLOWMETRY; ECHOGRAPHY; KIDNEY; KIDNEY ARTERY STENOSIS; KIDNEY VEIN; PATHOLOGY; PATIENT MONITORING; RENOVASCULAR HYPERTENSION; TRANSPLANTATION; VASCULAR DISEASE;

HUMANS; HYPERTENSION, RENOVASCULAR; KIDNEY; KIDNEY TRANSPLANTATION; MONITORING, INTRAOPERATIVE; RENAL ARTERY; RENAL ARTERY OBSTRUCTION; RENAL VEINS; ULTRASONOGRAPHY, DOPPLER, COLOR; VASCULAR DISEASES;

EID: 34247227538     PISSN: 01724614     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1055/s-2007-962859     Document Type: Review

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