Reversed diastolic flow in the renal transplant: Perioperative implications versus transplants older than 1 month

American Journal of Roentgenology

Volumn 190, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 650-655

  Lockhart, Mark E ^a   Wells, Charles G ^b   Morgan, Desiree E ^a   Fineberg, Naomi S ^c   Robbin, Michelle L ^a  

^a University of Alabama at Birmingham   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA AT BIRMINGHAM   (United States)

Author keywords

Doppler sonography; Reversed diastolic flow; Transplantation; Urinary system

Indexed keywords

ACUTE KIDNEY TUBULE NECROSIS; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; DIABETIC NEPHROPATHY; DOPPLER ECHOGRAPHY; FEMALE; GLOMERULOSCLEROSIS; GRAFT SURVIVAL; HEART OUTPUT; HEMATOMA; HUMAN; KIDNEY TRANSPLANTATION; KIDNEY VASCULAR RESISTANCE; KIDNEY VEIN THROMBOSIS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MORPHOLOGY; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PERIOPERATIVE PERIOD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVERSED DIASTOLIC FLOW; WAVEFORM;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; GRAFT SURVIVAL; HUMANS; KIDNEY FAILURE, CHRONIC; KIDNEY TRANSPLANTATION; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; RENAL CIRCULATION; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; TIME FACTORS; TREATMENT OUTCOME; ULTRASONOGRAPHY, DOPPLER; VASCULAR RESISTANCE;

EID: 39749146937     PISSN: 0361803X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2214/AJR.07.2666     Document Type: Article

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