ArticleCurrent medical imaging2021
Usefulness of Contrast-enhanced Ultrasound in the Evaluation of Chronic Kidney Disease.
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- Correlation of early contrast-enhanced ultrasound parameters with postoperative graft function and at six months after kidney transplantation.Ultrasound international open · 2024Article
- Determinants of Renal Micro-Perfusion as Assessed with Contrast-Enhanced Ultrasound in Healthy Males and Females.Journal of clinical medicine · 2023Article
- Renal Doppler Ultrasound in the Evaluation of Renal Function in Patients with Sepsis.Applied bionics and biomechanics · 2022Article
- Ultrasound-Based Renal Parenchymal Area and Kidney Function Decline in Infants With Congenital Anomalies of the Kidney and Urinary Tract.Seminars in nephrology · 2021Review
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Abstract
backgroundContrast-enhanced ultrasound (CEUS) can provide more improved images of renal blood flow and much more information of both macro- and microcirculation of the kidney as compared to Doppler US.
objectiveTo investigate the usefulness of CEUS by analyzing differences in perfusion-related parameters among the three chronic kidney disease (CKD) subgroups and the control group.
methodsThirty-eight patients with CKD and 21 controls who were age-matched (20-49 years) were included. Included CKD patients were stratified into three groups according to their eGFR: group I, eGFR ≥ 60 ml/min/1.73 m2 (GFR category I and II); group II, 30 ml/min/1.73 m
resultsEight patients were included in group I, 12 patients in group II, and 18 patients in group III. Significant differences were noted in the wash-in and wash-out rates between the CKD and control groups (p = 0.027 and p = 0.018, respectively), but not between those of the CKD subgroups. There were no significant differences of other perfusion parameters among the CKD subgroups and between the CKD and control groups.
conclusionA few perfusion related CEUS parameters (WiR and WoR) can be used as markers of renal microvascular perfusion relating renal function. CEUS can effectively and quantitatively exhibit the renal microvascular perfusion in patients with CKD as well as normal control participants.
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