Prevalence of abdominal aortic calcifications in older living renal donors and its effect on graft function and histology

Transplant International

Volumn 28, Issue 10, 2015, Pages 1172-1178

  Wu, En Haw ^a   Wojciechowski, David ^b   Chandran, Sindhu ^c   Yeh, Benjamin M ^a   Park, Meyeon ^c   Westphalen, Antonio ^a   Wang, Zhen J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

imaging; kidney clinical; live donors; outcome

Indexed keywords

CREATININE; PROTEIN;

ABDOMINAL AORTA; ABDOMINAL AORTIC CALCIFICATION; ABDOMINAL DISEASE; ADULT; AGE; AGED; AORTA DISEASE; ARTERIOLAR HYALINE THICKENING; ARTERY CALCIFICATION; ARTERY INTIMA PROLIFERATION; ARTICLE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONTROLLED STUDY; CREATININE BLOOD LEVEL; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; FEMALE; GLOMERULUS FILTRATION RATE; GRAFT RECIPIENT; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; KIDNEY BIOPSY; KIDNEY DONOR; KIDNEY FUNCTION; KIDNEY GRAFT FUNCTION; LIVING DONOR; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MICROANGIOPATHY; NEPHRECTOMY; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN URINE LEVEL; RENOGRAPHY; RENOVASCULAR DISEASE; VASCULAR FIBROUS INTIMAL THICKENING; AORTIC DISEASES; AORTOGRAPHY; ARTERIOLE; ATHEROSCLEROSIS; BIOPSY; DONOR SELECTION; INTIMA; KIDNEY; KIDNEY TRANSPLANTATION; MIDDLE AGED; PATHOLOGY; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; PROTEINURIA; RADIOGRAPHY; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; TREATMENT OUTCOME; ULTRASTRUCTURE; URINE; VASCULAR CALCIFICATION; VASCULARIZATION;

AGE FACTORS; AORTA, ABDOMINAL; AORTIC DISEASES; AORTOGRAPHY; ARTERIOLES; ATHEROSCLEROSIS; BIOPSY; CREATININE; DONOR SELECTION; FEMALE; GLOMERULAR FILTRATION RATE; HUMANS; KIDNEY; KIDNEY TRANSPLANTATION; LIVING DONORS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PREVALENCE; PROTEINURIA; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED; TREATMENT OUTCOME; TUNICA INTIMA; VASCULAR CALCIFICATION;

EID: 84940795777     PISSN: 09340874     EISSN: 14322277     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/tri.12612     Document Type: Article

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