Relationship of Renal Resistive Index and Cardiovascular Disease in Renal Transplant Recipients

Transplantation Proceedings

Volumn 41, Issue 7, 2009, Pages 2835-2837

  Akgul, A ^a   Sasak, G ^a   Basaran, C ^a   Colak, T ^a   Ozdemir, F N ^a   Haberal, M ^a  

^a BASKENT UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AZATHIOPRINE; C REACTIVE PROTEIN; CYCLOSPORIN; METHYLPREDNISOLONE; MYCOPHENOLIC ACID 2 MORPHOLINOETHYL ESTER; PREDNISOLONE; TACROLIMUS;

ADULT; ARTERIAL WALL THICKNESS; ARTICLE; ATHEROSCLEROTIC CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASE; BLOOD PRESSURE MEASUREMENT; BODY MASS; CARDIOVASCULAR RISK; CAROTID ARTERY; COLOR ULTRASOUND FLOWMETRY; DEMOGRAPHY; DIAGNOSTIC PROCEDURE; FEMALE; GRAFT RECIPIENT; HUMAN; IMMUNOSUPPRESSIVE TREATMENT; INTRARENAL RESISTIVE INDEX; KIDNEY FUNCTION; KIDNEY GRAFT; KIDNEY TRANSPLANTATION; LABORATORY TEST; LINEAR REGRESSION ANALYSIS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICAL RECORD; MULTIVARIATE LOGISTIC REGRESSION ANALYSIS; NON INVASIVE PROCEDURE; PREDICTIVE VALIDITY; PREDICTOR VARIABLE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PULSE PRESSURE; SMOKING; SYSTOLIC BLOOD PRESSURE;

ADULT; BLOOD PRESSURE; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASES; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; GRAFT REJECTION; HUMANS; KIDNEY; KIDNEY TRANSPLANTATION; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PATIENT SELECTION; PULSE; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; RENAL ARTERY; ULTRASONOGRAPHY, DOPPLER; VASCULAR RESISTANCE;

EID: 70149119437     PISSN: 00411345     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.transproceed.2009.07.023     Document Type: Article

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