Evaluating Renal Transplant Status Using Viscoelastic Response (VisR) Ultrasound

Ultrasound in Medicine & Biology
Md Murad HossainCaterina M Gallippi

Abstract

Chronic kidney disease is most desirably and cost-effectively treated by renal transplantation, but graft survival is a major challenge. Although irreversible graft damage can be averted by timely treatment, intervention is delayed when early graft dysfunction goes undetected by standard clinical metrics. A more sensitive and specific parameter for delineating graft health could be the viscoelastic properties of the renal parenchyma, which are interrogated non-invasively by Viscoelastic Response (VisR) ultrasound, a new acoustic radiation force (ARF)-based imaging method. Assessing the performance of VisR imaging in delineating histologically confirmed renal transplant pathologies in vivo is the purpose of the study described here. VisR imaging was performed in patients with (n = 19) and without (n = 25) clinical indication for renal allograft biopsy. The median values of VisR outcome metrics (τ, relative elasticity [RE] and relative viscosity [RV]) were calculated in five regions of interest that were manually delineated in the parenchyma (outer, center and inner) and in the pelvis (outer and inner). The ratios of a given VisR metric for all possible region-of-interest combinations were calculated, and the corresponding ratios...Continue Reading

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