TY - T1 - Renal vascular resistance is increased in patients with kidney transplant SN - / UR - http://hdl.handle.net/10138/308553 T3 - A1 - Päivärinta, Johanna; Oikonen, Vesa; Räisänen-Sokolowski, Anne; Tolvanen, Tuula; Löyttyniemi, Eliisa; Hidehiro, Iida; Nuutila, Pirjo; Metsärinne, Kaj; Koivuviita, Niina A2 - PB - Y1 - 2019 LA - eng AB - Background Despite improvement in short-term outcome of kidney transplants, the long-term survival of kidney transplants has not changed over past decades. Kidney biopsy is the gold standard of transplant pathology but it's invasive. Quantification of transplant blood flow could provide a novel non-invasive method to evaluate transplant pathology. The aim of this retrospective cross-sectional pilot study was to evaluate positron emission tomography (PET) as a method to measure kidney transplant ... VO - IS - SP - OP - KW - Kidney transplant; Renal perfusion; Kidney biopsy; Positron emission tomography; Chronic kidney disease; POSITRON-EMISSION-TOMOGRAPHY; BLOOD-FLOW; ALLOGRAFT NEPHROPATHY; RESISTIVE INDEX; DOPPLER; PERFUSION; RECIPIENTS; SURVIVAL; MRI; PET; 3126 Surgery, anesthesiology, intensive care, radiology N1 - PP - ER -