Serial resistive index and pulsatility index for diagnosing renal complications in the early posttransplant phase: Improving diagnostic efficacy by considering maximum values

Experimental and Clinical Transplantation

Volumn 6, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 161-167

  Radmehr, Ali ^a   Jandaghi, Ali Babaei ^a   Taheri, Amir Pejman Hashemi ^a   Shakiba, Madjid ^b  

^a TEHRAN UNIVERSITY OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (Iran)

^b TEHRAN UNIVERSITY OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (Iran)

Author keywords

Acute rejection; Complication; Duplex examination; Renal transplant

Indexed keywords

CYCLOSPORIN;

ACUTE GRAFT REJECTION; ACUTE KIDNEY TUBULE NECROSIS; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ARTICLE; CHILD; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; DOPPLER ECHOGRAPHY; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HUMAN; KIDNEY BIOPSY; KIDNEY GRAFT REJECTION; KIDNEY TRANSPLANTATION; KIDNEY VEIN THROMBOSIS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NORMAL VALUE; RECEIVER OPERATING CHARACTERISTIC; RENAL GRAFT DYSFUNCTION; UNSPECIFIED SIDE EFFECT;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AREA UNDER CURVE; BIOPSY; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; DIAGNOSTIC TESTS, ROUTINE; FEMALE; GRAFT REJECTION; HUMANS; KIDNEY; KIDNEY DISEASES; KIDNEY TRANSPLANTATION; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; ROC CURVE; ULTRASONOGRAPHY, DOPPLER, DUPLEX;

EID: 53649085118     PISSN: 13040855     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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