Assessment of renal allograft fibrosis by transient elastography

Transplant International

Volumn 26, Issue 5, 2013, Pages 545-551

  Sommerer, Claudia ^a   Scharf, Michael ^a   Seitz, Christoph ^a   Millonig, Gunda ^b   Seitz, Helmut K ^b   Zeier, Martin ^a   Mueller, Sebastian ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL HEIDELBERG   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HEIDELBERG   (Germany)

Author keywords

fibrosis; noninvasive assessment; renal transplantation; transient elastography

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BODY MASS; CLINICAL ASSESSMENT; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELASTOGRAPHY; EX VIVO STUDY; FEMALE; FIBROSING ALVEOLITIS; GRAFT RECIPIENT; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; IN VIVO STUDY; KIDNEY ALLOGRAFT; KIDNEY BIOPSY; KIDNEY DISEASE; KIDNEY EXAMINATION; KIDNEY FIBROSIS; KIDNEY FUNCTION; KIDNEY GRAFT; KIDNEY STIFFNESS; LANDRACE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEASUREMENT; NON INVASIVE PROCEDURE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SKIN ALLOGRAFT; SWINE; TRANSIENT ELASTOGRAPHY;

ADULT; ANIMALS; CREATININE; ELASTICITY IMAGING TECHNIQUES; FEMALE; FIBROSIS; HUMANS; KIDNEY; KIDNEY TRANSPLANTATION; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; OBSERVER VARIATION; SUS SCROFA; TRANSPLANTATION, HOMOLOGOUS;

EID: 84876463818     PISSN: 09340874     EISSN: 14322277     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/tri.12073     Document Type: Article

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