ARFI-based tissue elasticity quantification and kidney graft dysfunction: First clinical experiences

Clinical Hemorheology and Microcirculation

Volumn 49, Issue 1-4, 2011, Pages 527-535

  Stock, K F ^a   Klein, B S ^a   Cong, M T Vo ^a   Regenbogen, C ^a   Kemmner, S ^a   Buttner M ^b   Wagenpfeil, S ^a   Matevossian, E ^a   Renders, L ^a   Heemann, U ^a   Kuchle C ^a  

^a TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ERLANGEN NUREMBERG   (Germany)

Author keywords

ARFI; Doppler ultrasonography; elasticity imaging techniques; graft rejection; kidney; kidney transplantation; Ultrasonography

Indexed keywords

CALCINEURIN INHIBITOR;

ACOUSTIC RADIATION FORCE IMPULSE IMAGING; ACUTE KIDNEY TUBULE NECROSIS; ADULT; AGED; B SCAN; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONFERENCE PAPER; DOPPLER ECHOGRAPHY; DRUG TOXICITY; ELASTICITY; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; KIDNEY BIOPSY; KIDNEY CORTEX; KIDNEY GRAFT REJECTION; KIDNEY SIZE; KIDNEY TRANSPLANTATION; MALE; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; RIGIDITY; TISSUE ELASTICITY;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; BIOPSY; ELASTICITY; ELASTICITY IMAGING TECHNIQUES; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; GRAFT REJECTION; HUMANS; IMMUNITY, CELLULAR; IMMUNOSUPPRESSIVE AGENTS; KIDNEY; KIDNEY DISEASES; KIDNEY TRANSPLANTATION; KIDNEY TUBULAR NECROSIS, ACUTE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; PRIMARY GRAFT DYSFUNCTION; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; T-LYMPHOCYTE SUBSETS; ULTRASONOGRAPHY, DOPPLER, COLOR;

EID: 84856828308     PISSN: 13860291     EISSN: 18758622     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3233/CH-2011-1503     Document Type: Conference Paper

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