Assessment of live kidney donors by magnetic resonance angiography: Reliability and impact on outcomes

Clinical Transplantation

Volumn 22, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 29-34

  Monroy Cuadros, Mauricio ^a   McLaughlin, Kevin ^a   Salazar, Anastasio ^a   Yilmaz, Serdar ^a  

^a FOOTHILLS HOSPITAL   (Canada)

Author keywords

Donor nephrectomy; Kidney transplantation; Laparoscopy; Live donor; Magnetic resonance angiography

Indexed keywords

GADOLINIUM;

ADULT; AGED; ARTERY RECONSTRUCTION; ARTICLE; CONTRAST ENHANCEMENT; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIAGNOSTIC ERROR; FALSE NEGATIVE RESULT; FEMALE; GOLD STANDARD; GRAFT OCCLUSION; GRAFT PERFUSION; GRAFT RECIPIENT; HUMAN; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; INTRAOPERATIVE PERIOD; KIDNEY BLOOD FLOW; KIDNEY DONOR; KIDNEY FUNCTION; KIDNEY TRANSPLANTATION; LIVING DONOR; MAGNETIC RESONANCE ANGIOGRAPHY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NEPHRECTOMY; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RELIABILITY; RENAL ARTERY THROMBOSIS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SURGICAL ANATOMY; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING; TREATMENT OUTCOME; UNITED STATES; URINE INCONTINENCE;

ADULT; AGED; FEMALE; HUMANS; KIDNEY; KIDNEY TRANSPLANTATION; LIVING DONORS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE ANGIOGRAPHY; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; RENAL ARTERY; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; TRANSPLANTATION, HOMOLOGOUS; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 38549161626     PISSN: 09020063     EISSN: 13990012     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1399-0012.2007.00737.x     Document Type: Article

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