Impact of early kidney resistance index on kidney graft and patient survival during a 5-year follow-up

Nephrology Dialysis Transplantation

Volumn 27, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 1225-1231

  Kolonko, Aureliusz ^a   Chudek, Jerzy ^a   Zejda, Jan E ^a   Wieçek, Andrzej ^a  

^a MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF SILESIA   (Poland)

Author keywords

Doppler sonography; Kidney transplantation; Long term follow up; Resistance index; Transplant outcome

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DELAYED GRAFT FUNCTION; DOPPLER ECHOGRAPHY; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; GLOMERULUS FILTRATION RATE; HUMAN; KIDNEY GRAFT; KIDNEY INTERSTITIUM; KIDNEY RESISTANCE INDEX; KIDNEY TRANSPLANTATION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MORTALITY; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PREDICTIVE VALUE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; RENAL ARTERY; RENAL GRAFT DYSFUNCTION; RISK ASSESSMENT; SURVIVAL FACTOR; SURVIVAL TIME; UROGENITAL SYSTEM PARAMETERS;

ADULT; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; GLOMERULAR FILTRATION RATE; GRAFT REJECTION; GRAFT SURVIVAL; HUMANS; KIDNEY; KIDNEY TRANSPLANTATION; MALE; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SURVIVAL RATE; TIME FACTORS; ULTRASONOGRAPHY, DOPPLER; VASCULAR RESISTANCE;

EID: 84861136215     PISSN: 09310509     EISSN: 14602385     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/ndt/gfr424     Document Type: Article

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