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Determination of Representative Renal Depth for Accurate Attenuation Correction in Measurement of Glomerular Filtration Rate in Transplanted Kidney  

Oh, Soon-Nam (Department of Radiology, The Catholic University of Korea)
Kim, Sung-Hoon (Department of Radiology, The Catholic University of Korea)
Rha, Sung-Eun (Department of Radiology, The Catholic University of Korea)
Chung, Yong-An (Department of Radiology, The Catholic University of Korea)
Yoo, Ie-Ryung (Department of Radiology, The Catholic University of Korea)
Sohn, Hyung-Sun (Department of Radiology, The Catholic University of Korea)
Lee, Sung-Young (Department of Radiology, The Catholic University of Korea)
Chung, Soo-Kyo (Department of Radiology, The Catholic University of Korea)
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The Korean Journal of Nuclear Medicine / v.36, no.4, 2002 , pp. 271-276 More about this Journal
Abstract
Purpose: To measure reliable glomerular filtration rate by using the representative values of transplanted renal depths, which are measured with ultrasonography. Materials and Methods: We included 54 patients (26 men, 28 women), with having both renal scintigraphy and ultrasonography after renal transplantation. We measured GFR with Gates' method using the renal depth measured by ultrasonography, and median and mean ones in each patient. We compared GFR derived from ultrasonography-measured renal depth with GFR derived from median and mean renal depths. The correlation coefficients were obtained among GFR derived from ultrasonography-measured renal depths, median and mean renal depths under linear regression analysis. We determined whether GFR derived from median or mean renal depth could substitute GFR derived from ultrasonography-measured renal depth with Bland-Altman method. We analyze the expected errors of the GFR using representative renal depth in terms of age, sex, weight, height, creatinine value, and body surface. Results: The transplanted renal depths range from 3.20 cm to 5.96 cm. The mean value and standard deviation of renal depths measured by ultrasonography are $4.09{\pm}0.65cm$ in men, and $4.24{\pm}0.78cm$ in women. The median value of renal depths measured by ultrasonography is 4.36 cm in men and 4.14 cm in women. The GFR derived from median renal depth is more consistent with GFR derived from ultrasonography-measured renal depth than GFR derived from mean renal depth. Differences of GFR derived from median and ultrasonography-measured renal depth are not significantly different in the groups classified with creatinine value, age, sex, height, weight and body surface. Conclusion: When median value is adapted as a representative renal depth, we could obtain reliable GFR in transplanted kidney simply.
Keywords
Kidney transplantation; Glomerular filtration rate; Renal depth; $^{99m}Tc-DTPA$;
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