Does the measurement of the difference of resistive indexes in spleen and kidney allow a selective assessment of chronic kidney injury?

Radiology

Volumn 264, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 894-902

  Grün, Oliver S ^a   Herath, Esther ^a   Weihrauch, Anja ^a   Flügge, Franziska ^a   Rogacev, Kyrill S ^a   Fliser, Danilo ^a   Heine, Gunnar H ^a  

^a SAARLAND UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTERIAL WALL THICKNESS; ARTICLE; CHRONIC KIDNEY DISEASE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIFFERENCE OF RESISTIVE INDEXES IN SPLEEN AND KIDNEY; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; ECHOGRAPHY; FEMALE; GLOMERULUS FILTRATION RATE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RENAL RESISTIVE INDEX; SCORING SYSTEM; SPLENIC RESISTIVE INDEX; SYSTEMIC VASCULAR DISEASE; VASCULAR DISEASE;

ADULT; AGED; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HUMANS; KIDNEY; KIDNEY FAILURE, CHRONIC; KIDNEY FUNCTION TESTS; LINEAR MODELS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; QUESTIONNAIRES; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK FACTORS; SPLEEN; STATISTICS, NONPARAMETRIC; ULTRASONOGRAPHY, DOPPLER; VASCULAR RESISTANCE;

EID: 84865416177     PISSN: 00338419     EISSN: 15271315     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1148/radiol.12111533     Document Type: Article

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