ArticleEuropean journal of radiology2020
Magnetic resonance elastography vs. point shear wave ultrasound elastography for the assessment of renal allograft dysfunction.
Article in European journal of radiology, 2020. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 18 papers.
What it found
Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.
The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.
The trial behind it
Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.
Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.
Who cites it
18 citing papers in PubMed, 31 citations in OpenAlex.
- Multimodal quantitative ultrasound for non-invasive assessment of renal allograft dysfunction: a prospective diagnostic study.World journal of urology · 2026Article
- Doppler ultrasound for the evaluation of chronic renal allograft dysfunction.Quantitative imaging in medicine and surgery · 2026Article
- A bibliometric analysis of ultrasound-based evaluation in renal transplantation.Translational andrology and urology · 2025Article
- Non-invasive assessment techniques for renal fibrosis: advances and perspectives.Renal failure · 2025Review
- Ultrasound super-resolution imaging for the assessment of renal allograft dysfunction: A pilot study.Heliyon · 2024Article
- The Biomechanics of Musculoskeletal Tissues during Activities of Daily Living: Dynamic Assessment Using Quantitative Transmission-Mode Ultrasound Techniques.Healthcare (Basel, Switzerland) · 2024Review
- Magnetic resonance elastography resolving all gross anatomical segments of the kidney during controlled hydration.Frontiers in physiology · 2024Article
- Imaging fibrosis in pediatric kidney transplantation: A pilot study.Pediatric transplantation · 2023Article
- A diagnostic test of three-dimensional magnetic resonance elastography imaging for preoperative prediction of microvascular invasion in patients with T1 stage clear cell renal carcinoma.Translational andrology and urology · 2023Article
- Ultrasound shear wave elastography for the evaluation of renal pathological changes in adult patients.The British journal of radiology · 2023Review
- MR elastography outperforms shear wave elastography for the diagnosis of clinically significant portal hypertension.European radiology · 2022Article
- Importance of Confounding Factors in the Evaluation of Surrogate Measures for Kidney Transplant Fibrosis.Kidney360 · 2022Article
- Predicting Progression of Kidney Injury Based on Elastography Ultrasound and Radiomics Signatures.Diagnostics (Basel, Switzerland) · 2022Article
- Elasticity of the Scalene Muscles in Collegiate Baseball Pitchers Using Shear Wave Elastography.Orthopaedic journal of sports medicine · 2022Article
- Magnetic Resonance Elastography-derived Stiffness Predicts Renal Function Loss and Is Associated With Microvascular Inflammation in Kidney Transplant Recipients.Transplantation direct · 2022Article
- Causal contributors to tissue stiffness and clinical relevance in urology.Communications biology · 2021Review
- 4D flow MRI for the assessment of renal transplant dysfunction: initial results.European radiology · 2021Article
- Magnetic resonance elastography vs. point shear wave ultrasound elastography for the assessment of renal allograft dysfunction.European journal of radiology · 2020Article
Corrections and comments
- Commented on by
Authors and funding
10 authors at 1 institution in 2 countries.
Funding
Abstract
purposeTo investigate the utility of magnetic resonance elastography (MRE) vs. ultrasound (US) point shear wave elastography (pSWE) for the assessment of chronic renal allograft dysfunction, prediction of outcome and determine the correlation with Banff pathology scores.
methodsIn this IRB approved prospective study, 27 enrolled patients with functional (n = 15) and chronic dysfunctional (n = 12) renal allografts underwent same day 2D MRE and pSWE. Histogram parameters [including mean, median, standard deviation, kurtosis and skewness] of the magnitude of the complex shear modulus (MRE) and median Young's modulus (pSWE) were measured in the cortex (MRE and pSWE) and combined corticomedullary regions (MRE). Histopathology was available for 16 patients (4 functional, 12 dysfunctional).
resultsMRE and pSWE stiffness were not significantly different between functional and dysfunctional groups (p range 0.139-0.347). The skewness of MRE corticomedullary stiffness was significantly lower (p = 0.04) in patients with chronic dysfunction and correlated significantly with Banff histopathologic scores (range r=-0.518-0.567, p = 0.035-0.040). MRE cortical and corticomedullary mean stiffness showed strong performance in predicting graft loss/relist (AUC 0.958, p = 0.011 for both). Reliable pSWE measurements were obtained in 13 patients (48 %). pSWE stiffness did not correlate with Banff scores and did not predict outcome.
conclusionsThe skewness of MRE corticomedullary stiffness is sensitive to changes in chronic allograft dysfunction, while mean/median MRE renal stiffness and median US stiffness did not differentiate patients with stable function vs those with chronic renal allograft dysfunction. MRE corticomedullary mean stiffness appears to be a predictor of graft loss/relist. pSWE was not found to be a useful method for assessing renal allografts.
Indexed as
Identifiers
What OpenQuestion holds
Registered trials
Read under generation 80e0d062 · epoch 390. Bibliography from PubMed, PubMed Central and OpenAlex; grants from NIH RePORTER; trial links from ClinicalTrials.gov; estimates, votes and beliefs from the OpenQuestion graph.