Standardizing resistive indices in healthy pediatric transplant recipients of adult-sized kidneys

Pediatric Transplantation

Volumn 14, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 126-131

  Gholami, Sepideh ^a   Sarwal, Minnie M ^a   Naesens, Maarten ^a,b   Ringertz, Hans G ^a,c   Barth, Richard A ^a   Balise, Raymond R ^a   Salvatierra, Oscar ^a  

^a STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY HOSPITALS LEUVEN   (Belgium)

^c LINKÖPING UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Color Doppler ultrasonography; Pediatric renal transplants; Renal vascular resistance; Resistive index

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BODY SURFACE; CHILD; CLINICAL ARTICLE; HUMAN; KIDNEY BLOOD FLOW; KIDNEY GRAFT; KIDNEY INTERSTITIUM; KIDNEY PERFUSION; KIDNEY SIZE; KIDNEY TRANSPLANTATION; KIDNEY TUBULE; KIDNEY VASCULAR RESISTANCE; PEDIATRIC SURGERY; PROSPECTIVE STUDY;

ADOLESCENT; BIOPSY; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; INFANT; KIDNEY; KIDNEY FAILURE, CHRONIC; KIDNEY TRANSPLANTATION; ORGAN SIZE; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; REGIONAL BLOOD FLOW; RENAL ARTERY; RENAL CIRCULATION; TRANSPLANTATION, AUTOLOGOUS; TREATMENT OUTCOME; ULTRASONOGRAPHY, DOPPLER; VASCULAR RESISTANCE; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 74349123712     PISSN: 13973142     EISSN: 13993046     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1399-3046.2009.01180.x     Document Type: Article

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