Kidney Transplant: Usefulness of Real-Time Elastography (RTE) in the Diagnosis of Graft Interstitial Fibrosis

Ultrasound in Medicine and Biology

Volumn 40, Issue 11, 2014, Pages 2564-2572

  Orlacchio, Antonio ^a   Chegai, Fabrizio ^a   Del Giudice, Costantino ^a   Anselmo, Alessandro ^a   Iaria, Giuseppe ^a   Palmieri, Giampiero ^a   Di Caprera, Elena ^a   Tosti, Daniela ^a   Costanzo, Elisa ^a   Tisone, Giuseppe ^a   Simonetti, Giovanni ^a  

^a TOR VERGATA UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Italy)

Author keywords

Allograft biopsy; Elasticity imaging; Graft histology; Kidney transplantation; Ultrasound imaging

Indexed keywords

BIOPSY; ELASTICITY; MEDICAL IMAGING; ULTRASONIC IMAGING;

AREA UNDER THE CURVES; ELASTICITY IMAGING; INVERSE CORRELATION; KIDNEY TRANSPLANTATION; REAL-TIME ELASTOGRAPHY; RECEIVER OPERATING CHARACTERISTIC ANALYSIS; RECEIVER OPERATING CHARACTERISTIC CURVES; ULTRASOUND IMAGING;

GRAFTS;

ADULT; AREA UNDER THE CURVE; ARTICLE; BANFF SCORE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COLOR ULTRASOUND FLOWMETRY; COMPLIANCE (PHYSICAL); CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORE BIOPSY NEEDLE; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; DIAGNOSTIC TEST ACCURACY STUDY; DISEASE SEVERITY; ELASTOGRAPHY; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; GRAFT INTERSTITIAL FIBROSIS; HEMATOMA; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; IMAGING SOFTWARE; KIDNEY ALLOGRAFT; KIDNEY BIOPSY; KIDNEY FIBROSIS; MALE; NON INVASIVE MEASUREMENT; PERIRENAL HEMATOMA; PREDICTIVE VALUE; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; REAL TIME ELASTOGRAPHY; REAL TIME ULTRASOUND SCANNER; RECEIVER OPERATING CHARACTERISTIC; RENAL GRAFT DYSFUNCTION; SCORING SYSTEM; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; TISSUE MEAN ELASTICITY; ULTRASOUND TRANSDUCER; BIOPSY; ECHOGRAPHY; FIBROSIS; KIDNEY; KIDNEY DISEASE; KIDNEY TRANSPLANTATION; OBSERVER VARIATION; PATHOLOGY; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; PROCEDURES; REPRODUCIBILITY; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX;

ADULT; AREA UNDER CURVE; BIOPSY; ELASTICITY IMAGING TECHNIQUES; FEMALE; FIBROSIS; HUMANS; KIDNEY; KIDNEY DISEASES; KIDNEY TRANSPLANTATION; MALE; OBSERVER VARIATION; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; ROC CURVE; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX;

EID: 84907984022     PISSN: 03015629     EISSN: 1879291X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ultrasmedbio.2014.06.002     Document Type: Article

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