Is There a Place for Elastography in the Assessment of Chronic Kidney Disease?

Renal elastography is a real-time ultrasound-based imaging method that can potentially be used in order to assess diffuse diseases of native kidneys. In find place the clinical practice for renal elastography, what influencing obtained results should known. The kidney shear wave speed influenced by different factors such as age, gender, measurement depth or urinary pressure. relationship with function and also fibrosis across studies, not all studies showing an increase stiffness more advanced diseases. However, changes blood flow seem influence decrease could cause have bigger on compared fibrosis. This paper provides summary about regarding limitations this according published thus far.