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APPLICATION OF THE REDUCED VOLUME OF CONTRAST IN THE DIAGNOSIS OF TRANSPLANTED KIDNEYS BY COMPUTER TOMOGRAPHY
This clinical observation presents the experience of using multispiral computed tomography (MSCT) with bolus contrast with the use of a reduced amount of contrast medium in the evaluation of renal transplants of patients in the late post-transplant period. The majority of the subjects were patients with transplanted kidneys on the external iliac artery. For research, two groups of patients were formed and divided according to the principle of conserved and non-existent functions of transplants. Multispiral computed tomography (MSCT) with bolus enhancement is the most reliable method of organ evaluation, it allows to assess the appropriate functioning of the renal system after kidney’s transplantation or the validity of transplantatectomy. It should be noted that the use of ultrasonography in these cases is safe, but we can’t get practical information of the filtering ability of the kidney. This research considers the use of MSCT in patients after kidney transplantation, as well as in patients with chronic renal failure (CRF) in the terminal stage, receiving a substitution therapy as program hemodialysis.
