Background: Contrast-enhanced ultrasound (CEUS) and power Doppler ultrasound (US) are established tools in the study of acute renal allograft (RA) dysfunction. The aim of this study was to investigate their long-term prognostic impact.
Materials And Methods: A total of 39 kidney recipients underwent CEUS and US at 5 and 15 days and at 1, 3, 6, and 12 months after grafting, with yearly clinical, laboratory, and US follow-up for a total of 4 years. CEUS analysis according to the gamma variate model was performed on cortical and medullary regions. Patients were divided into 2 subsets: death or graft failure vs patients with functioning grafts; higher vs lower than 50% glomerular filtration rate (GFR) reduction from the first month to the fourth year after grafting. Receiver-operator characteristic (ROC) analysis for death/graft failure and 50% GFR reduction events was performed for variables with significant differences between groups (t test) or with significant correlation to GFR (Pearson correlation).
Results: ROC analysis confirms the reliability of clinical and radiologic variables for the evaluation of long-term graft survival or of GFR reduction, with high sensitivity (for resistive index) or specificity (for GFR, medullary peak, and regional blood flow).
Conclusions: Combining CEUS and US allows the evaluation of long-term RA function in terms of GFR reduction and graft survival. Resisitive-indexes show a good sensitivity, relating to kidney disfunction, while CEUS parameters show a good specificity, identifiying well-perfused grafts.
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