ArticleJournal of clinical medicine2022
An Innovative Ultrasound Technique for Early Detection of Kidney Dysfunction: Superb Microvascular Imaging as a Reference Standard.
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- Ultrasound innovations in abdominal radiology: techniques and clinical applications in pediatric imaging.Abdominal radiology (New York) · 2025Review
- Non-Invasive Assessment of Vascular Damage Through Pulse Wave Velocity and Superb Microvascular Imaging in Pre-Dialysis Patients.Biomedicines · 2025Article
- Novel non-invasive and quantitative assessment of the renal function of transplanted kidneys using Doppler ultrasonography with the vascular index of superb microvascular imaging.Ultrasonography (Seoul, Korea) · 2025Article
- Advancements in the non-invasive diagnosis of renal fibrosis.Frontiers in medicine · 2025Review
- Multimodal ultrasound deep learning to detect fibrosis in early chronic kidney disease.Renal failure · 2024Article
- Renal Ultrasonography in Children: Principles and Emerging Techniques.Current treatment options in pediatrics · 2024Article
- Contrast-Enhanced Ultrasound (CEUS) and Ultra-Microangiography (UMA) in Critically Ill Children with Acute Kidney Injury.Children (Basel, Switzerland) · 2024Review
- Detection of microvascular damage of membranous nephropathy by MicroFlow imaging: a novel ultrasound technique.Quantitative imaging in medicine and surgery · 2024Article
- Ultrasound analysis of different forms of hemolytic uremic syndrome in children.Frontiers in pediatrics · 2024Article
- New microvascular ultrasound techniques: abdominal applications.La Radiologia medica · 2023Review
- Quantitative ultrasound for non-invasive evaluation of subclinical rejection in renal transplantation.European radiology · 2023Article
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Abstract
backgroundSuperb microvascular imaging (SMI) is an innovative ultrasound image processing technique that provides greater detail and better visualization of small branching vessels. We assume that SMI will provide sufficient information regarding the severity of chronic kidney disease (CKD) and reflecting histological changes.
aimsThe aims was to assess the capabilities of SMI imaging regarding the early detection of kidney dysfunction and renal fibrosis in comparison to the reference standard renal biopsy for the early diagnosis of kidney fibrosis.
methodsSMI was performed in patients (
resultsThe SMI vascular index was significantly lower in CKD patients as compared with healthy controls (72.2 ± 12.9 vs. 49.9 ± 16.7%,
conclusionsThis study demonstrated that SMI imaging may be utilized in CKD patients of various stages for the evaluation of chronic renal morphological changes and for differentiation between CKD grades.
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