학술논문
Relationship between cortical and medullary thickness and glomerular filtration rate among living kidney donors.
Document Type
Article
Source
Subject
*GLOMERULAR filtration rate
*KIDNEYS
*BLOOD vessels
*KIDNEY transplantation
*COMPUTED tomography
*ORGAN donors
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ISSN
1444-0903
Abstract
The relationship between the kidney cortex and medulla is not well understood in healthy populations. This study characterised the relationship between cortical/medullary thickness and measured glomerular filtration rate (GFR) in 390 living kidney donors. A positive relationship was observed between medullary, but not cortical, thickness and GFR. We propose that this reflects a correlation between juxtamedullary nephron number and GFR. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]