Trial reportPediatric radiology2015
Acoustic radiation force impulse (ARFI) elastography for detection of renal damage in children.
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- Factors influencing renal shear wave elastography: effects of probe orientation, respiration, corticomedullary differentiation, and hydration.Journal of ultrasonography · 2026Article
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- Imaging Assessment of Radiation Therapy-Related Normal Tissue Injury in Children: A PENTEC Visionary Statement.International journal of radiation oncology, biology, physics · 2024Review
- Shear wave elastography of kidneys in children: utility in distinguishing steroid-resistant and steroid-sensitive nephrotic syndrome.Abdominal radiology (New York) · 2024Article
- 2D Shear wave elastography for evaluation of renal cortex and medulla: stiffness values in healthy children.Abdominal radiology (New York) · 2023Article
- Ultrasound Elastography in Children.Children (Basel, Switzerland) · 2023Review
- Elastography in the Urological Practice: Urinary and Male Genital Tract, Prostate Excluded-Review.Diagnostics (Basel, Switzerland) · 2022Review
- Technical feasibility and correlations between shear-wave elastography and histology in kidney fibrosis in children.Pediatric radiology · 2021Article
- Can bladder shear wave elastography be an alternative method for detection of neurogenic bladder instead of urodynamic study?Journal of family medicine and primary care · 2020Article
- ARFI shear-wave elastography with simulation of acute urinary tract obstruction in an ex vivo porcine kidney model.Diagnostic and interventional radiology (Ankara, Turkey) · 2018Article
- Shear wave elastography in the evaluation of renal parenchymal stiffness in patients with chronic kidney disease.The British journal of radiology · 2018Article
- Acoustic radiation force impulse (ARFI) elastography in the evaluation of renal parenchymal stiffness in patients with ureteropelvic junction obstruction.Journal of medical ultrasonics (2001) · 2017Article
- Applications of acoustic radiation force impulse quantification in chronic kidney disease: a review.Ultrasonography (Seoul, Korea) · 2016Review
- The comparison of resistivity index and strain index values in the ultrasonographic evaluation of chronic kidney disease.La Radiologia medica · 2016Article
- White Paper on P4 Concepts for Pediatric Imaging.Journal of the American College of Radiology : JACR · 2016Article
- Acoustic radiation force impulse elastography for evaluating renal parenchymal stiffness in children.Pediatric radiology · 2015Article
- Reply to Ozkan et al. regarding 'Acoustic radiation force impulse elastography for detection of renal damage in children'.Pediatric radiology · 2015Article
- Shear wave velocities in damaged kidneys: fast and slow.Pediatric radiology · 2015Article
- Utility of ultrasound elastography in postoperative follow-up of children with unilateral ureteropelvic junction obstruction.Indian journal of urology : IJU : journal of the Urological Society of IndiaArticle
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Abstract
backgroundAcoustic radiation force impulse (ARFI) imaging is a promising method for noninvasive evaluation of the renal parenchyma.
objectiveTo investigate the contribution of ARFI quantitative US elastography for the detection of renal damage in kidneys with and without vesicoureteral reflux (VUR). MATERIALS AND
methodsOne hundred seventy-six kidneys of 88 children (46 male, 42 female) who had been referred for voiding cystourethrography and 20 healthy controls were prospectively investigated. Patients were assessed according to severity of renal damage on dimercaptosuccinic acid (DMSA) scintigraphy. Ninety-eight age- and gender-matched healthy children constituted the control group. Quantitative shear wave velocity (SWV) measurements were performed in the upper and lower poles and in the interpolar region of each kidney. DMSA scintigraphy was performed in 62 children (124 kidneys). Comparisons of SWV values of kidneys with and without renal damage and/or VUR were done.
resultsSignificantly higher SWV values were found in non-damaged kidneys. Severely damaged kidneys had the lowest SWV values (P < 0.001). High-grade (grade V-IV) refluxing kidneys had the lowest SWV values, while non-refluxing kidneys had the highest values (P < 0.05). Significant negative correlations were found between the mean quantitative US elastography values and DMSA scarring score (r = -0.788, P < 0.001) and VUR grade (r = -0.634, P < 0.001). SWV values of the control kidneys were significantly higher than those of damaged kidneys (P < 0.05).
conclusionOur findings suggest decreasing SWV of renal units with increasing grades of vesicoureteric reflux, increasing DMSA-assessed renal damage and decreasing DMSA-assessed differential function.
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