Publications by authors named "Estee Fleischman"
Background/aims: Microalbuminuria is a marker for early kidney disease and cardiovascular risk. The purposes of this study were to determine the prevalence of microalbuminuria in an HIV-infected clinic population, to test the predictive value of a single urine albumin/creatinine ratio (ACR) to identify persistent microalbuminuria and to examine covariates of microalbuminuria.
Methods: We conducted a prospective cohort study of HIV-infected subjects (n = 182) without proteinuria (urine protein/creatinine ratio ≥0.
Objective: Hydrogen-1 MR spectroscopy ((1)H-MRS) is gaining acceptance as a noninvasive technique for assessment of hepatic steatosis, and the findings have been found to correlate closely with histopathologic grade. The aims of this study were to validate (1)H-MRS performed with a 3-T MRI system for quantifying hepatic steatosis and to determine threshold values of (1)H-MRS proton density fat fraction corresponding to standard histopathologic grade in patients undergoing diagnostic liver biopsy.
Subjects And Methods: We conducted a prospective cross-sectional liver MRS study with 52 subjects undergoing diagnostic liver biopsy.