ReviewNephron2018
An Introduction to Contrast-Enhanced Ultrasound for Nephrologists.
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20 citing papers in PubMed.
- Application value of gastric contrast ultrasonography in gastric tumors.Insights into imaging · 2026Review
- Clinical Utility of Contrast-Enhanced Ultrasound (CEUS) in Urology: A Multisystem Review.Cureus · 2025Review
- Obesity‑related kidney disease: a review on ultrasound applications.Italian journal of pediatrics · 2025Review
- Hydrophobin-Coated Echogenic Microbubbles for Molecular Targeting of Tumor Cells.Advanced science (Weinheim, Baden-Wurttemberg, Germany) · 2025Article
- Ultrasonography of Hepatocellular Carcinoma: From Diagnosis to Prognosis.Journal of clinical and translational hepatology · 2024Review
- Acoustic response and ambient pressure sensitivity characterization of SonoVue for noninvasive pressure estimation.The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America · 2024Article
- Prediction of renal recovery following sepsis-associated acute kidney injury requiring renal replacement therapy using contrast-enhanced ultrasonography.Kidney research and clinical practice · 2023Article
- Loading Intracranial Drug-Eluting Reservoirs Across the Blood-Brain Barrier With Focused Ultrasound.Ultrasound in medicine & biology · 2023Article
- Safety considerations related to intravenous contrast agents in pediatric imaging.Pediatric radiology · 2023Review
- Kidney Ultrasound for Nephrologists: A Review.Kidney medicine · 2022Review
- Ultrasonographic study of hemodynamics and contrast-enhanced ultrasound in the rhesus monkey kidney.Experimental animals · 2022Article
- Advanced diagnostic imaging of sentinel lymph node in early stage breast cancer.Journal of clinical ultrasound : JCU · 2022Review
- Performance of Contrast-Enhanced Ultrasound in Thyroid Nodules: Review of Current State and Future Perspectives.Cancers · 2021Review
- Detecting and Monitoring Hydrogels with Medical Imaging.ACS biomaterials science & engineering · 2021Review
- The feasibility of ultrasound-assisted endovascular laser thrombolysis in an acute rabbit thrombosis model.Medical physics · 2021Article
- Giant haemorrhagic hepatic cyst with flame-like morphology in a patient with polycystic kidney and liver disease.Ultrasound (Leeds, England) · 2021Article
- Contrast-enhanced ultrasound-guided musculoskeletal biopsies: our experience and technique.Skeletal radiology · 2021Article
- Ultrasound-assisted laser thrombolysis with endovascular laser and high-intensity focused ultrasound.Medical physics · 2021Article
- Ultrasound for the treatment of acute kidney injury and other inflammatory conditions: a promising path toward noninvasive neuroimmune regulation.American journal of physiology. Renal physiology · 2020Article
- Contrast-Enhanced Ultrasound in Renal Imaging and Intervention.Current urology reports · 2019Review
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Abstract
Contrast-enhanced ultrasound (CEUS) is an emerging technology with no known nephrotoxicity. CEUS has been utilized in cardiac and abdominal imaging for decades in Asia and Europe and has recently received greater attention in the United States with its approval for characterization of indeterminate liver lesions. Emerging data suggest that CEUS has potential as a diagnostic imaging tool among individuals who have contraindications to CT and MRI. Few nephrologists are aware of CEUS and even fewer are aware of its potential applications among individuals with kidney disease. This review introduces CEUS to the nephrology community and provides a basic overview of CEUS technology. Knowledge of the applications, advantages, and disadvantages of CEUS provides the framework for nephrologists to make informed decisions regarding this emerging imaging test in appropriate circumstances. This review focuses on the use of CEUS for the characterization of indeterminate kidney lesions and summarizes the most recent data, some of which specifically includes patients with chronic kidney disease (CKD). The results demonstrate that CEUS has high sensitivity and moderate specificity for detecting malignancy in indeterminate kidney lesions among individuals with and without CKD. In conclusion, CEUS is an emerging imaging technique that may have clinically useful applications for detecting malignant kidney lesions, specifically in patients with CKD. However, most of the current data come from small, single-center studies, and larger, multicenter studies are needed.
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