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Ultrasonographic Features of Kidney Transplants and Their Complications: An Imaging Review
Renal transplantation is the treatment of choice for managing patients with end-stage kidney disease. Being submitted to a very serious surgical procedure, renal transplant recipients can only benefit from follow-up imaging and monitoring strategies. Ultrasound is considered as the principal imaging...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4045518/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24967275 http://dx.doi.org/10.5402/2013/480862 |
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author | Kolofousi, Chrysafoula Stefanidis, Konstantinos Cokkinos, Demosthenes D. Karakitsos, Dimitrios Antypa, Eleni Piperopoulos, Ploutarhos |
author_facet | Kolofousi, Chrysafoula Stefanidis, Konstantinos Cokkinos, Demosthenes D. Karakitsos, Dimitrios Antypa, Eleni Piperopoulos, Ploutarhos |
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description | Renal transplantation is the treatment of choice for managing patients with end-stage kidney disease. Being submitted to a very serious surgical procedure, renal transplant recipients can only benefit from follow-up imaging and monitoring strategies. Ultrasound is considered as the principal imaging test in the evaluation of renal transplants. It is an easily applied bedside examination that can detect possible complications and guide further imaging or intervention. In this imaging review, we present essential information regarding the sonographic features of healthy renal transplants, detailing the surgical technique and how it affects the sonoanatomy. We focus on various complications that occur following renal transplantation and their sonographic features by reviewing pertinent literature sources and our own extensive imaging archives. |
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spelling | pubmed-40455182014-06-25 Ultrasonographic Features of Kidney Transplants and Their Complications: An Imaging Review Kolofousi, Chrysafoula Stefanidis, Konstantinos Cokkinos, Demosthenes D. Karakitsos, Dimitrios Antypa, Eleni Piperopoulos, Ploutarhos ISRN Radiol Review Article Renal transplantation is the treatment of choice for managing patients with end-stage kidney disease. Being submitted to a very serious surgical procedure, renal transplant recipients can only benefit from follow-up imaging and monitoring strategies. Ultrasound is considered as the principal imaging test in the evaluation of renal transplants. It is an easily applied bedside examination that can detect possible complications and guide further imaging or intervention. In this imaging review, we present essential information regarding the sonographic features of healthy renal transplants, detailing the surgical technique and how it affects the sonoanatomy. We focus on various complications that occur following renal transplantation and their sonographic features by reviewing pertinent literature sources and our own extensive imaging archives. Hindawi Publishing Corporation 2012-12-02 /pmc/articles/PMC4045518/ /pubmed/24967275 http://dx.doi.org/10.5402/2013/480862 Text en Copyright © 2013 Chrysafoula Kolofousi et al. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/ This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. |
spellingShingle | Review Article Kolofousi, Chrysafoula Stefanidis, Konstantinos Cokkinos, Demosthenes D. Karakitsos, Dimitrios Antypa, Eleni Piperopoulos, Ploutarhos Ultrasonographic Features of Kidney Transplants and Their Complications: An Imaging Review |
title | Ultrasonographic Features of Kidney Transplants and Their Complications: An Imaging Review |
title_full | Ultrasonographic Features of Kidney Transplants and Their Complications: An Imaging Review |
title_fullStr | Ultrasonographic Features of Kidney Transplants and Their Complications: An Imaging Review |
title_full_unstemmed | Ultrasonographic Features of Kidney Transplants and Their Complications: An Imaging Review |
title_short | Ultrasonographic Features of Kidney Transplants and Their Complications: An Imaging Review |
title_sort | ultrasonographic features of kidney transplants and their complications: an imaging review |
topic | Review Article |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4045518/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24967275 http://dx.doi.org/10.5402/2013/480862 |
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