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  • The study examined 67 live donor renal transplant recipients to assess the effectiveness of power Doppler sonography in distinguishing between acute renal transplant rejection and acute tubular necrosis (ATN).
  • Power Doppler grading of cortical perfusion (CP) revealed patterns linked to different rejection grades, showing that higher CP grades correlated with acute rejection and lower grades with ATN.
  • Results indicated that power Doppler is a non-invasive, sensitive method for early detection of acute rejection, outperforming traditional renal function measures like serum creatinine and resistive index.

Article Abstract

To evaluate the role of power Doppler in the identification and differentiation between acute renal transplant rejection and acute tubular necrosis (ATN), we studied 67 live donor renal transplant recipients. All patients were examined by spectral and power Doppler sonography. Assessment of cortical perfusion (CP) by power Doppler was subjective, using our grading score system: P0 (normal CP); homogenous cortical blush extending to the capsule, P1 (reduced CP); cortical vascular cut-off at interlobular level, P2 (markedly reduced CP); scattered cortical color flow at the interlobar level. Renal biopsies were performed during acute graft dysfunction. Pathological diagnoses were based on Banff classification 1997. The Mann- Whitney test was used to test the difference between CP grades with respect to serum creatinine (SCr), and resistive index (RI). For 38 episodes of acute graft rejection grade I, power Doppler showed that CP was P1 and RI ranging from 0.78 to 0.89. For 21 episodes of acute graft rejection grade II, power Doppler showed that CP was P1, with RI ranging from 0.88 to >1. Only one case of grade III rejection had a CP of P2. Twelve biopsies of ATN had CP of P0 and RI ranging from 0.80 to 0.89 There was a statistically significant correlation between CP grading and SCr (P <0.01) as well as between CP grading and RI (P <0.05). CP grading had a higher sensitivity in the detection of early acute rejection compared with RI and cross-sectional area measurements. We conclude that power Doppler is a non-invasive sensitive technique that may help in the detection and differentiation between acute renal transplant rejection and ATN, particularly in the early post-transplantation period.

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http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/1319-2442.134948DOI Listing

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