Quantitative Renal Echogenicity as a Tool for Diagnosis of Advanced Chronic Kidney Disease in Patients with Glomerulopathies and no Liver Disease

• Hlavní autoři: Alexandre B. Libório (Autor), Fernanda Macedo de Oliveira Neves (Autor), Candice Bezerra Torres de Melo (Autor), Tacyano Tavares Leite (Autor), Renata de Almeida Leitão (Autor)
• Médium: Kniha
• Vydáno: Karger Publishers, 2017-10-01T00:00:00Z.
• Témata: article
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Background/Aims: Glomerulopathy patients are prone to developing transitory reduced glomerular filtration rate (GFR), which can be difficult to differentiate from irreversible chronic kidney disease (CKD). Renal ultrasound can be useful, but differently from renal length, quantitative renal echogeni...