Comprehensive assessment of renal function and vessel morphology in potential living kidney donors an MRI-based approach

Investigative Radiology

Volumn 44, Issue 11, 2009, Pages 705-711

  Rosst, Cristina ^a,d   Boss, Andreas ^b   Atunc, Ferruh ^c   Yildiz, Serdar ^c   Martirosian, Petras ^a   Ditimann, Helmut ^d   Claussen, Claus D ^b   Heyne, Nils ^c   Schick, Fritz ^a   Schlemmer, Heinz Peter ^a  

^a Section ot Experimental Radiology   (Germany)

^b Department of Diagnostic and Interventional Radiology ^*  (Germany)

^c Section of Nephrology and Hypertension   (Germany)

^d UNIVERSITY OF TÜBINGEN   (Germany)

Author keywords

Dynamic mr nephrography; Glomerular filtration rate; Living kidney donors; Renal vessel morphology; Split renal function

Indexed keywords

GADOBUTROL; PENTETATE TECHNETIUM TC 99M;

ADULT; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL TRIAL; FEMALE; GLOMERULUS FILTRATION RATE; HUMAN; KIDNEY CLEARANCE; KIDNEY FUNCTION; KIDNEY SCINTISCANNING; KIDNEY TRANSPLANTATION; LIVING DONOR; MAGNETIC RESONANCE ANGIOGRAPHY; MALE; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PREOPERATIVE EVALUATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RENOGRAPHY; KIDNEY; KIDNEY FUNCTION TEST; METHODOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; PATHOLOGY; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PATIENT SELECTION; PREOPERATIVE CARE; RENAL ARTERY;

FEMALE; HUMANS; KIDNEY; KIDNEY FUNCTION TESTS; KIDNEY TRANSPLANTATION; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PATIENT SELECTION; PREOPERATIVE CARE; RENAL ARTERY;

EID: 73349130631     PISSN: 00209996     EISSN: 15360210     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/RLI.0b013e3181b35a70     Document Type: Article

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