Renal transplantation parenchymal complications: what Doppler ultrasound can and cannot do.

ABSTRACT: Kidney transplantation is the treatment of choice in end-stage renal disease, given the better quality of life of transplanted patients when compared with patients on maintenance dialysis. In spite of surgical improvements and new immunosuppressive regimens, parts of transplanted grafts still develop chronic dysfunction. Ultrasonography, both in B-mode and with Doppler ultrasound, is an important diagnostic tool in case of clinical conditions which might impair kidney function. Even though ultrasonography is considered fundamental in the diagnosis of vascular and surgical complications of the transplanted kidney, its role is not fully understood in case of parenchymal complications of the graft. The specificity of Doppler is low both in case of acute complications, such as acute tubular ne

SUBMITTER: Granata A 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC4504857 | biostudies-literature | 2015 Jun

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature