ArticleJournal of medical ultrasound
Renal Cortical Elastography: Normal Values and Variations.
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The Effect of Allopurinol on Malondialdehyde, Nitric Oxide, Kidney Injury Molecule-1 Urine Levels, Resistive Index and Renal Elastography in Kidney Stone Patients After Extra Corporeal Shockwave Lithotripsy
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- Technical feasibility and correlations between shear-wave elastography and histology in kidney fibrosis in children.Pediatric radiology · 2021Article
- Does Early Diabetic Kidney Damage Alter Renal Elasticity? An Ultrasound-Based, Two-Dimensional Shear Wave Elastography Study.Medeniyet medical journal · 2021Article
- Renal ultrasonographic shear-wave elastography and urinary procollagen type III amino-terminal propeptide in chronic kidney disease dogs.Veterinary world · 2020Article
- Renal ultrasonographic strain elastography and symmetric dimethylarginine (SDMA) in canine and feline chronic kidney disease.The Journal of veterinary medical science · 2020Article
- Multiparametric ultrasound in the evaluation of kidney disease in elderly.Journal of ultrasound · 2020Review
- Renal shear wave elastography and urinary procollagen type III amino-terminal propeptide (uPIIINP) in feline chronic kidney disease.BMC veterinary research · 2019Article
- Shear wave elastography and Doppler ultrasound in kidney transplant recipients.Radiologia brasileiraArticle
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Abstract
introductionRenal cortical elastography has shown conflicting but promising results in evaluation of chronic kidney disease and other renal disorders. The purpose of this study was to establish a normogram of renal cortical elasticity values and assess their variation between right and left kidney and their relation with age, gender, body mass index, renal dimensions and skin to cortex distance.
methodsThe study was a hospital based cross sectional study performed at Tribhuvan University Teaching Hospital, a tertiary care center in Kathmandu, Nepal. All individuals referred for Ultrasound from General Health Check up clinic were included in the study. Patient with abnormal ultrasound findings and abnormal renal function test were excluded from the study. Renal morphometry including length, cortical thickness, and skin to cortex distance were measured in B mode imaging and renal cortical elastography was measured with region of interest box of 1 × 0.5 cm. All analyses were done using Statistical Package for Social Sciences 20.0 soft ware.
resultsA total of 95 individuals who met the inclusion criteria were included in the study. The mean values of right and left renal cortical shear wave velocity were 1.49 ± 0.19 m/s and 1.54 ± 0.19 m/s respectively. Statistical significant difference was observed between the renal cortical shear wave velocity of right and left kidney. The renal shear wave velocity was seen to decrease with age, however the correlation was not statistically significant. No significant difference was also noted in renal shear wave velocity among various sex or Body mass index groups. Statistically significant negative correlation was noted between skin to cortex distance and renal cortical shear wave velocities. However no statistically significant correlation was noted between renal dimensions and renal cortical shear wave velocities.
conclusionsThe normal cortical elasticity values in terms of shear wave velocity of right and left kidney were established. Renal elasticity is independent of the age, gender, Body mass index and renal dimensions.
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